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Describe total institutions as an agent of socialization.

      

Describe total institutions as an agent of socialization.

  

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Francis
This is a unique agent of socialization. It is a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time, and are subject to the control of officials of varied ranks (Thomas, 1995). Prisons, military camps, detention camps, monasteries and psychiatric hospitals are examples of total institutions.
francis1897 answered the question on August 18, 2022 at 10:14


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