A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to tight control]

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Spencer Owens

3 September, 23:52

A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to tight control]

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Brody Burnett · Answer 1

The correct answer is total institution.

According to Erving Goffman, a sociologist who coined this term, a total institution is a place where a particular group of people is isolated from the rest of the society for a particular time period. Examples of total institutions would be jails, orphanages, mental hospitals, convents, boarding schools, etc.