total institution

Examples of total institution in the following topics:

• Resocialization and Total Institutions

  • A total institution is a place where a group of people is cut off from the wider community and their needs are under bureaucratic control.
  • A total institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, lead an enclosed, formally administered life together.
  • Within a total institution, the basic needs of a entire bloc of people are under bureaucratic control.
  • The goal of total institutions is resocialization, the radical alteration of residents' personalities by deliberately manipulating their environment.
  • First, the staff of the institution tries to erode the residents' identities and independence.

• Elements of Socialization

  • Depending on the degree of isolation and resocialization that takes place in a given institution, some of these institutions are labeled total institutions.
  • In his classic study of total institutions, Erving Goffman gives the following characteristics of total institutions:
  • The most common examples of total institutions include mental hospitals, prisons, and military boot camps, though there are numerous other institutions that could be considered total institutions as well.
  • The goal of total institutions is to facilitate a complete break with one's old life in order for the institution to resocialize the individual into a new life.Mortimer and Simmons note a difference in socialization methodologies in different types of institutions.
  • When the goal of an institution is socialization (primary or secondary), the institution tends to use normative pressures.

• Anticipatory Socialization and Resocialization

  • Total institutions aim to radically alter residents' personalities through deliberate manipulation of their environment.
  • First, the staff of the institution tries to erode the residents' identities and sense of independence.

• Gender Roles in the U.S.

  • His first model involved total role segregation; men and women would be trained and educated in gender-specific institutions, and high professional qualifications and the workplace would be intended for men.
  • Parsons contrasted this first model with a second that involved the total integration of roles.
  • In the second model, men and women would be educated in the same institutions and study the same content in classes.
  • However, total role segregation was closer to the reality of the United States in the 1950s, whereas a total integration of roles is increasingly common in the United States today.
  • The national trend toward a total integration of gender roles is reflected in women's education, professional achievement, and family income contributions.

• Marital Residence

  • Marriage is an institution which can join together people's lives in a variety of emotional and economic ways.
  • Marriage is an institution which can join together people's lives in a variety of emotional and economic ways.
  • Although it is illegal in five states, a total of 4.85 million couples live together.

• Social Institutions

  • Institutions can be either formal or informal.
  • However, formal institutions do not have to have the force of the law at their disposal.
  • Institutions can also be abstract, such as the institution of marriage.
  • While institutions tend to appear to people in society as part of the natural, unchanging landscape of their lives, sociological studies of institutions reveal institutions a social constructs, meaning that they are created by individuals and particular historical and cultural moment.
  • The social function of the institution is the fulfillment of the assigned roles.

• Property

  • Property is the total of one's possessions and, therefore, may be a better measure of social class than income.
  • Property refers to the sum total of one's possessions, as well as their regular income.
  • They believe private property becomes useless when it concentrates into centralized, socialized institutions based on private appropriation of revenue until the role of the capitalist becomes redundant.

• Prisons

  • In total, 7,225,800 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2009 — about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.
  • According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009.
  • Hispanics (of all races) were 20.6% of the total jail and prison population in 2009.
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009.
  • Hispanics (of all races) were 20.6% of the total jail and prison population in 2009.

• Distribution of Wealth and Income

  • In many societies, the richest ten percent control more than half of the total wealth.
  • The Gini coefficient measures the amount of wealth or income inequality in a society by plotting the proportion of total income (or wealth) earned by the bottom x percent of the population.
  • A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations reports that the richest 1 percent of adults owned 40 percent of global assets in the year 2000, and that the richest 10 percent of adults accounted for 85 percent of the world total.
  • The bottom 10 percent of those who own any land own less than 1 percent of the total land value.
  • An idea taken from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is that wealth should be distributed as according to the precepts of, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. " While states such as the Soviet Union and China have implemented communist systems to varying degrees, Marxism has never been realized in its ideal form, and no country has had a totally equal distribution of wealth.

• Institutionalized Children

  • Institutionalized children may develop institutional syndrome, which refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills.
  • In clinical and abnormal psychology, institutional syndrome refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills, which develop after a person has spent a long period living in mental hospitals, prisons, or other remote institutions.
  • The term institutionalization can be used both in regard to the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to institutional syndrome; thus a person being "institutionalized" may mean either that he/she has been placed in an institution, or that he/she is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an institution for an extended period of time.
  • Deinstitutionalization can have multiple definitions; the first focuses on reducing the population size of mental institutions.
  • This can be accomplished by releasing individuals from institutions, shortening the length of stays, and reducing both admissions and readmission.