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Total Institutions
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A total institution, Goffman's term, is a setting where people are cut off from the wider society and every part of life is administered by one authority.
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Prisons, boarding schools, monasteries, and military training run sleep, work, and leisure in one place.
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The defining feature is the merging of life's separate spheres under one authority.