Answer:
Answers are:
1. D. All of the above are agents of socialization.
2. B. An emergency room is not a total institution.
Explanation:
1. According to symbolic interactionism we encounter numeorous agents of socialization in our lives, the first one, is the family. For a child, the family is where socialization begins. School is the second agent of socialization, where the child begins to interact with other people outside the family, with peers and learn a different set of rules. Mass media, including TV, is also an important agent of socialization, where the child learns about other people and other realities, mass media holds a strong influence in a person's preferences and opinions.
2. According to Erving Goffman, a total institution is an institution that is closed and separated from the outside world, people who live in total institutions do all of their daily activities in there and they are rarely allowed to interact with the outside world. Goffman did observation in prisons and in psychiatric hospitals, but a military camp also fits with the characteristics that Goffman asigned for these institutions.
