For young people, technology can influence their social development. By watching television, children learn about stereotypes of a group of people. Kids play video games a lot these days and most of them are violent, which can make them even more violent. 5. What are total institutions? Identify Goffman's four traits of total institutions. Discuss how a degradation ceremony is used to mortify self-esteem. This shows that our school system is failing boys by treating them as troublemakers and not as good students. The total institution was coined by the American sociologist Erving Goffman, and it is defined as a place where a group of people for the same reason live for a certain period of time, disconnected from the larger community and under bureaucratic control; for example, prison and boarding school. Goffman introduced four features of total institutions and they are: all people live in the same place and under the same authority, people will carry out their daily activities in groups and they must do the same thing and be treated the same way, in the constitutions, their daily activities are tightly scheduled and entrusted to civil servants. , and finally, the activities that people perform in institutions aim to execute the goal of the