Erving Goffman referred to the mental hospitals as __________ institutions.
A)total
B)remedial
C)residual
D)therapeutic
E)uncontrolled

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Erving Goffman categorized mental hospitals as total institutions in his book "Asylums". He argued that such institutions encompassed all aspects of an individual's life, with little or no opportunity for privacy or independent decision-making, and that patients were stripped of their previous social identities and forced to adopt new ones.

Erving Goffman Referred to the Mental Hospitals as __________ Institutions