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A total institution or residential institution is a residential facility where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life.[1]: 44 [2]: 855 [3] Privacy and civil liberties are limited or non-existent in total institutions, as all aspects of life including sleep, play, and work, are conducted in the same place.[4] The concept is mostly associated with the work of sociologist Erving Goffman.[5]
Characteristics of total institutions usually include at least a few of the following
- Strict limitations on personal property or an outright confiscation of personal possessions with the exception of certain medical devices like eyeglasses
(most common in prisons and mental hospitals, other types of residential institutions typically allow more personal property)
- Uniforms and\or dress codes (especially in prisons, boarding schools and military bases)
- A certain degree of dehumanization
- Scheduling covering and organizing every minute of the day
- Ridged authoritarian hierarchy
- Stringent rules
- Cell or barracks\dorm type housing where multiple people sleep in each bedroom (in boarding schools, ships, remote work camps\outposts, military bases and some prisons)
- Communal meals in dining halls, recreation, etc
- ^ Frank, Jacquelyn (2002). The paradox of aging in place in assisted living. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 44. ISBN 0-89789-678-5.
- ^ Lammers, Stephen; Verhey, Allen (1998). On moral medicine: theological perspectives in medical ethics. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 855. ISBN 0-8028-4249-6.
- ^ "Extracts from Erving Goffman". A Middlesex University resource. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ Giddens, Anthony (2018). Introduction to Sociology. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 126. ISBN 9780393623956.
- ^ Goffman, Erving (1961). Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Anchor Books. ISBN 9780385000161.