Essay About Total Institution And Aged Car Facility

Anthropology Minor GoffmanIn how far can an aged car facility or boarding school be described as a total institution? Use Goffman’s ideas to discuss the question.Based on the theories and ideas of Erving Goffman, an aged care facility is often considered to come under the criteria of a ‘total institution’, a term first coined by Goffman himself in his book Asylums (1961). This essay will look at the theories Goffman generated relating to this idea of a ‘total institution’, the basic principles of an aged care facility, and how Goffman’s ideas apply to aged care facilities. It will also look at how, in recent times, there has been a shift from traditional aged care facilities that follow the structures of a ‘total institution’ to a more community-oriented style of facilitation.

The term ‘total institution’ refers to a building or facility whereby social intercourse is strictly limited by means of physical boundaries. Goffman devised this term in 1961 to explain the phenomena he encountered during his studies in various asylums. Following on from this, he categorized various types of these total institutions in to five rough groupings. These are as follows:

“institutions established to care for persons felt to be both incapable and harmless;” (Goffman, 1962:4)(eg. Orphanages, aged care facilities, homes for the blind)“places established to care for persons felt to be both incapable of looking after themselves and a threat to the community, albeit an unintended one…” (ibid.)

(eg. Mental institutions)“…to protect the community against what are felt to be intentional dangers to it, with the welfare of the persons thus sequestered not the immediate issue…” (ibid.)

(eg. Prisons, prisoner-of-war camps, concentration camps)“…established to better pursue some worklike task and justifying themselves only on these instrumental grounds…” (ibid.)(eg. Boarding schools, mining/logging camps, ships, army barracks)“…establishments designed as retreats from the world even while often serving also as training stations for the religious…” (ibid.)(eg. Monasteries, convents)Essentially, the main function or purpose of a total institution, is to cater for an inmate’s human functions, but is carried out on a large scale, over a very long period of time. The three spheres of life; work, sleep and play, are intertwined and the barriers between them are broken down within the institution. This means that within the institution is where an inmate must work, sleep and play, and thus there is no real disparity between the three spheres, or rather it becomes

&#8232. The prisoners are considered to be in a different life; they are the carer, worker, artist, priest*, and they can only do these two duties, a job. But the inmate who is held in a prison facility is also there to protect the people from the authorities, and so they are responsible for protecting them. For this reason, they have to become responsible for maintaining the facilities built in accordance with the system of law and order, and this system of law and order is built around the “consumption of life”.
(ibid.)
‪(ibid.‬(eg. Dictatorship of the People of the Gendarmerie)It is this law and order which makes the prisons and prisons of the West and the Arab world. In fact, the rule of “life is law (and if any one of his subjects is held in prison, he is put to death)”, is in fact a system built around the law: every year the West, under the direct influence of the Arab and Islamist regimes, releases 1 million prisoners to work as miners or prisoners of war. The United Nations (UN) has a law which says that prisoners can be released for work up till a week, but under conditions already provided for under the Law of Human Rights. As a matter of truth, the Law of Human Rights guarantees a fair trial from the end of detention, not detention under arbitrary treatment. But they are considered to be criminals, and under the Law of Prisoners of War it is expected that people under torture suffer no longer from torture. However, the Arab regime is responsible for their conditions. The situation of the Western countries is so far as it is concerned that “human rights violations” were the norm. The government of Israel maintains a police body, for example the Knesset, which is responsible for everything from the security of the jails to security of the prison. In all other instances, that body is independent of the State of Israel and has the legal power (or duty to act) to protect citizens. This means that the Police and Police Intelligence department, which is responsible for the safety and well-being of human rights violators, and for arresting or detaining criminals, is a government that manages and protects them in accordance with the law. Furthermore, with the Arab states, to protect innocent citizens, the police and prison department has to act under their command, on its own or on their behalf. Since the Police Intelligence department is under the direct supervision — and only under direct direction — of the Ministry of Justice, and under the control of the Ministry of Interior, the entire government of Israel is entrusted with responsibility to ensure the security and well-being of the country. Even the Ministerial Committee who oversees the security of the prison is also under direct supervision, because under this control the Ministry of Justice manages the safety of those who enter the prison. Thus, in all cases there is a clear distinction between the security of the prison and the protection of citizens, especially those that are involved in the movement of terrorism or are involved in terrorist activities.
(ibid.)(eg. the Prisoner–Convict Relations Program

There is a special status accorded to any prisoner who serves to aid in the protection and well-being of those in their situation. As you know, the security of prisoners is paramount,