Question

According to erving goffman, the goal of a total institution is to

a. help integrate a troubled patient into the outside world.
b. give a person greater choices about how to live.
c. radically alter a person's personality or behavior.
d. encourage lifelong learning in a supervised context.

Answer 1

The goal of total institution by Erving Goffman is that it radically alters one’s personality or even their behavior. It is because he defines this as a place of which same situated people come together as they were cut off from a wide community for a specific time to administer a round of life.