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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Total institution
		Total institution as defined by Erving Goffman, is an institution where all the aspects of life of individuals under the institution is controlled and regulated by the authorities of the organization.
		Total institutions are a social microcosm dictated by hegemony and clear hierarchy.
		Total institution, (also referred to as voracious institutions) as defined by Erving Goffman, is an institution where all the aspects of life of individuals under the institution is controlled and regulated by the authorities of the organization.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Total-institution (334 words)

	main:characteristics_of_total_institutions [Politics of Health]
		Their encompassing or total character is symbolized by the barrier to social intercourse with the outside that is often built right into the physical plant: locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs and water, open terrain, and so forth.
		In some total institutions, such as logging camps and merchant ships, something of the usual relation to the world that money can buy is obtained through the practice of” forced saving”; all needs are organized by the institution, and payment is given only after a work season is over and the men leave the premises.
		Total institutions frequently claim to be concerned with rehabilitation, that is, with resetting the inmate’s self-regulatory mechanisms so that he will maintain the standards of the establishment of his own accord after he leaves the setting.
	www.politicsofhealth.org /main/characteristics_of_total_institutions (5616 words)

	Total institution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Total institution, (also referred to as voracious institutions) as defined by Erving Goffman, is an institution where all the aspects of life of individuals under the institution is controlled and regulated by the authorities of the organization.
		Total institutions are a social microcosmos dictated by hegemony and clear hierarchy.
		Some people view total institutions as places where rites of passage and indoctrination occur within their confines in such a way that the total institution acts as a secret society within the society, one which shapes newcomers willingly or unwillingly into a new and more or less permanent social role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Total_institution (374 words)

	Office of Planning & Analysis -- Policy 2.5
		Institutions are urged to review their policies and practices periodically to ensure that they accomplish the institution's goals and that they function in a manner that is fair and equitable to students.
		Institutions also have the responsibility to advise the students that the work reflected on the transcript may or may not be accepted by a receiving institution.
		Institutions are encouraged to use this statement as a basis for discussions in developing or reviewing institutional policies with regard to transfer.
	www.montana.edu /opa/assess/standard/pol25.html (1341 words)

	The Daily, Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Heritage institutions
		Canada's heritage institutions, everything from zoos to art galleries to museums, were more popular than ever in 2004 as more than 35 million visitors passed through the turnstiles.
		Much of the deficit was due to the not-for-profit institutions, which recorded a shortfall of $21.3 million — despite an 11.9% increase in revenue from 2002.
		The various levels of government continued their support of not-for-profit institutions, which were the primary (99%) beneficiaries of government grants and subsidies.
	www.statcan.ca /Daily/English/060726/d060726b.htm (1019 words)

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		Total reservable liabilities of all depository institutions increased by 12.3 percent (from $1,961.1 billion to $2,202.9 billion) from June 30, 1999, to June 30, 2000.
		Institutions that obtain funds from non-U.S. sources or that have foreign branches or IBFs would continue to be required to file the Report of Certain Eurocurrency Transactions (forms FR 2950/FR 2951) at the same frequency as they file the form FR 2900.
		Each depository institution, Edge or agreement corporation, and U.S. branch or agency of a foreign bank is subject to a zero percent reserve requirement on an amount of its transaction accounts subject to the low reserve tranche in paragraph (a) of this section not in excess of $5.5 million determined in accordance with Sec.
	www.bankersonline.com /topstory/fedreg/65FR69857.txt (1795 words)

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		Total reservable liabilities of all depository institutions increased by 7.1 percent (from $2,317.7 billion to $2,481.7 billion) from June 30, 2001, to June 30, 2002.
		Institutions that obtain funds from non- U.S. sources or that have foreign branches or IBFs would continue to be required to file the Report of Certain Eurocurrency Transactions (forms FR 2950/FR 2951) at the same frequency as they file the form FR 2900.
		Institutions with total deposits below the exemption level of $6.0 million would be excused from reporting if their deposits can be estimated from other data sources.
	www.bankersonline.com /topstory/fedreg/67FR62634.txt (1523 words)

	David Borys \| The Polish Chef : Total institutions and the Inmates Re-entry to Society
		In prison, inmates are commonly referred to by a number, as in military institutions new recruits are called plebes or shinies, and are not referred to by their names.
		While getting orientated to life on the inside of the total institution a person is introduced to a set of written and unwritten rules and regulation, along with the punishments for disobedience.
		Many total institutions implement a solitary confinement, a loss of eating or leisure privileges, or even the re location of an inmate to a new or more strict section of the total institution.
	www.davidborys.com /archives/000085.html (1261 words)

	Slashdoc - Total Institutions
		Whatever the institution may be, it is defined by
		Total institutions are ones that will take away and identity and not ask
		Total institutions are incompatible with family, which is one of the
	www.slashdoc.com /documents/33299 (959 words)

	Regulatory Framework - Reserve Bank of Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Total capital is the sum of tier one and tier two capital.
		The policy requires quarterly reporting by a licensed financial institution to the Reserve Bank of Fiji of details of names and amounts of exposures to single borrowers or groups of related borrowers which exceed 10 percent of that licensed financial institution’s total capital.
		The guideline standardises the format for the disclosure of fees and charges by all banks and credit institutions; allows comparability of fees and charges between financial institutions by members of the public; and requires that sufficient written notice be given to customers before any changes are made to their fees and charges.
	www.reservebank.gov.fj /bank_sup.html (2074 words)

	FDIC: FDIC Federal Register Citations
		Also, for those covered institutions that subsequently receive a composite or component Management rating of 3 or worse, the FDIC should require full compliance with Part 363, reinstating the requirements for the internal control assessment and attestation over financial reporting and the requirement that audit committee members be independent of management.
		In reviewing past failures of insured institutions, the OIG has observed that weak corporate governance, including financial reporting problems and the lack of independence of the board from institution management, is often a factor in the failure of these institutions and material losses to the insurance funds.
		However, for public institutions with total assets of $500 million or more, the proposed amendment to Part 363 would provide relief only from the requirement that audit committee members be independent of management, because the SEC’s comparable rule includes assessment and reporting requirements for internal control over financial reporting.
	www.fdic.gov /regulations/laws/federal/2005/05c47audits.html (1517 words)

	The Politics of Presentation: Goffman and Total Institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Their encompassing or total character is symbolized by the barrier to social intercourse with the outside and to departure that is often built right into the physical plant, such as locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs, water, forests, or moors.
		The total institution no longer stands out as aberrant--as though the social world was divided into institutions and practices which are "ordinary" or "normal" and do not ask for an abnormal commitment from a person, and then there is this strange one, completely different, which requires total control.
		His generalizations about total institutions simultaneously made possible a far more serious moral evaluation of those practices, since the judgment was now based on a more than superficial understanding of what the moral choices actors had to make actually were.
	home.earthlink.net /~hsbecker/goffman.html (3221 words)

	FRB: H.3 Release--Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions--October 26, 2006
		All vault cash held during the lagged computation period by "bound" institutions (i.e., those whose required reserves exceed their vault cash) plus the amount of vault cash applied during the maintenance period by "nonbound" institutions (i.e., those whose vault cash exceeds their required reserves) to satisfy current reserve requirements.
		Total vault cash eligible to satisfy reserve requirements, held by depository institutions not exempt from reserve requirements, minus the amount used to satisfy reserve requirements.
		To adjust required reserves for discontinuities due to regulatory changes in in reserve requirements, a multiplicative procedure is used to estimate what required reserves would have been in past periods had current reserve requirements been in effect.
	www.federalreserve.gov /releases/H3/Current (495 words)

	Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates \| genesoc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The second major point in the text is Goffman's criticism of total institutions, which is really limited to the very last section in the book (though you could easily see an underlying criticism throughout).
		Goffman's basic argument is that the total institution does several things to inmates (I should note that he is speaking specifically of mental hospitals here, though some of this could likely be applied to other institutions): First it stigmatizes the inmate, preventing them from being able to ever completely reintegrate into society afterwards.
		In researching the topic it appears that very little work has actually been done on total institutions (labeled as such) since Goffman's treatise (a lot of work has been done on prisons but it is in the criminology literature and does not generally refer to prisons as total institutions).
	www.genesoc.com /node/91 (747 words)

	in-cites - The Most-Cited Institutions in Chemistry, 1994-2004
		These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 739 institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count in this field.
		The top 20 institutions in Chemistry are a blend of large universities and government agencies from America, Europe, and Asia.
		Other institutions from Japan making this list are Osaka University (6,582 papers cited a total of 55,618 times to date), Tokyo Institute of Technology (6,845 papers cited a total of 53,236 times to date), and Tohoku University (5,773 papers cited a total of 46,473 times to date).
	www.in-cites.com /institutions/che_1994-2004.html (736 words)

	Foreign Language Enrollments in Us Institutions of Higher Education Fall 1986 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The six leading languages—Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Latin—accounted for 90.4% of the total registrations in foreign languages in the colleges and universities covered in the survey; the other six languages listed in table 2 accounted for an additional 8.2%, and the remaining 1.4% were distributed among 103 additional languages, ancient and modern.
		The state of California is the location of 104 of the 832 responding two-year institutions and has 63,772 enrollments, or 39.2% of the total for the nation.
		In 1968, total enrollment in these languages was 32,813; in 1972 it was 59,532, and in 1983 it was 68,866.
	www.mla.org /adfl/bulletin/v19n2/192039.htm (1081 words)

	Total Institutions: environmentalstudiespapers.com-environmental studies research reports, environmental studies ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Like Goffman’s synopsis of a total institution, UMASS most aspects of faculty and students life is conducted in the same place, namely campus, and generally under the direction of one central authority, the governing educational body (Roberts, 2003).
		In some ways, students at the UMASS may be considered inmates because they are required to follow the rules and regulations of the institution in order to graduate or be released from their obligation.
		Another central characteristic of a total institution is that each aspect of a members daily activity “is carried on in the immediate company of a large...
	www.environmentalstudiespapers.com /paper/1834/total-institutions.html (417 words)

	2004 Graduation Rate at Minnesota Four-Year Institutions
		Graduation rates are calculated by tracking the completion of full-time, new entering, degree seeking students, at their original institution of entry.
		Institutions with high transfer out rates may have low graduation rates, even though the students transferring may complete their degrees at other institutions.
		Institutions may not use transfer in students to calculate graduation rates.
	www.ohe.state.mn.us /qPg.cfm?pageID=1464 (135 words)

	Total Institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Total institutions can be typified on a continuum from little control to absolute control:
		The relative position of the mental institution on this line is dependent on the type of institution and the time frame.
		In addition, if a person enters the mental institution voluntarily, less damage may be done to their self Indeed, there is a group therapy scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest in which McMurphy expresses amazement that anyone would voluntarily commit themselves to the facility.
	www.gossamer-wings.com /soc/Notes/zation1tv/tsld016.htm (163 words)

	Erving Goffman: Asylums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The basic definition of total institution is as follows: a place of residence and work in which a large number of individuals, who are cut off from the wider society for a relatively long time together, lead and enclosed, formally-administered round of life.
		A typology of total institutions is as follows: First, agencies designed to care for harmless but incapable people (the blind, the aged, orphaned children).
		Fifth, agencies designed to be a retreat from the world (monasteries, abbeys, convents, growth and learning centers).
	webpages.chhs.niu.edu /stolte/soc260/asylums.htm (1016 words)

	hireMedical \| Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
		In this work he takes on 'the Asylum' the mental institution that is like a prison in being 'total' in its effort to shape, define, repress the self.
		This is one reason why Goffmann opposes such institutions as they do not truly prepare the inmates for the life outside, the life in a wholly different kind of social reality.
		Less clear is the implications of Goffman's concept to those institutions which are either "weak" total institutions or non-total institutions with total institution tendencies.
	www.hiremedical.com /e/bookstore/0385000162.htm (1372 words)

	Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
		Their dependence on the normal functioning of their institutional environment is total and they are the truly powerless.
		For, by virtue of the human institution of language, institutions consist of regulative and constitutive rules, and the latter make possible actions and relationships that could not occur without the rules that define them as the actions and relationships that they are.
		What began to appear for a brief period until social institutions began to re-acquire their grip was what Giorgio Agamben has called ‘bare life’—the powerlessness to live social lives fit for human beings.
	understandingkatrina.ssrc.org /Lukes (6011 words)

	Total number of institutions and fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by type and control of institution ...
		Total number of institutions and fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by type and control of institution and percentage of minority enrollment: 2002
		NOTE: Data are for 2-year and 4-year degree-granting institutions that participated in Title IV federal financial aid programs.
		For this reason, counts of institutions in this table are somewhat lower than figures appearing in other tables.
	nces.ed.gov /programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_208.asp (168 words)

	New COST: What is Cost
		Ease of access for institutions from non-member countries also makes COST a very interesting and successful tool for tackling topics of a truly global nature.
		To emphasise that the initiative came from the scientists and technical experts themselves and from those with a direct interest in furthering international collaboration, the founding fathers of COST opted for a flexible and pragmatic approach.
		This allows to participate in the MC and WG meetings although without voting right The participants from non-COST countries are normally not eligible for reimbursement of travel expenses although for specific countries exceptions may be possible.
	www.cost.esf.org /index.php?id=9 (1634 words)

	Education
		Availability of pre-school children institutions (as % of the number of children in corresponding age) - total
		Availability of pre-school children institutions (as % of the number of children in corresponding age) -urban settlements
		Admittance of students in institutions of high education -daytime education
	www.cisstat.com /2base/ier/ierarx17.htm (734 words)

	Restaurants & Institutions - Foodservice Industry News, Recipes, Research
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		CatererSearch.com is a engine for the catering industry based in the United Kingdom.
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	Mutual Funds For Institutions: Hartford Total Return Bond HLS Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mutual Funds For Institutions: Hartford Total Return Bond HLS Fund
		The fund seeks a competitive total return, with income as a secondary objective.
		We follow the Hartford Investment Management total return investment philosophy by striving to balance income and potential for capital appreciation so that both components can contribute to the Fund’s long-term total return.
	institutional.hartfordlife.com /products/mutualfund_htrb_hls.shtml (272 words)

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