Erving Goffman Coined This Term to Refer to a Place

question 34

Multiple Choice

Erving Goffman coined this term to refer to a place where people are cut off from the rest of society and come under almost total control of those who run the place.

• A) Complete institution
• B) The habitus
• C) Panoptical
• D) Austere institution
• E) Total institution

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Definitions:

Day-to-day Life

Day-to-day life refers to the routine activities and experiences that an individual goes through on a typical day.

Delusions

False beliefs held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary, often observed in psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.

Hallucinations

Perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, often occurring in psychiatric conditions.

Compulsions

Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.