Foucault: A Sociological Analysis

Foucault identifies relationships specifically within society’s and in each it comes down to how power, discourses and forms of social control interconnects and associates to how social control is regulated and determine how to authority controls crime within a social structure. The developments of discipline and increasing surveillance through the increasing rates of hospital/asylum, as apposed to analysing prisons and punishment through physical torture and focus on a process in which develops a structure to help deviants and criminals through mental states at a more peaceful construction. In other words, Foucault presents alternatives for punishment through time in terms of the criminal codes and punishments to explore why we moved from
It recognises that initial norm-breaking acts can derive from various social, cultural and psychological factors, although the focus must be on the social audience which determines whether certain activities are defined as deviant and whether a subject becomes deviant. Labelling perspective identifies differentiating norm violation from social control, in order to progressively considering social rule construction, unifying interest and power across the diverse social groups. Defining what deviancy behaviour is, as deviant depends on the social audience, not just on the norm-breaking activity, that can depend on the environment, in which the norms may adjust through social shifts within specific markets. An act of deviancy does not consciously follow rule-breaking behaviour, it varies on one exclusive social audience’s implementation and reactions that depend upon their specific norms and values. Residents within specific settings of society, are more inclined to associate stereotype with a subject in which can create deviant consequences. Deviancy had redirected the attention towards the process of how the definition of deviance is defined though the stability of one society had
He also examined crime through a labelling perspective in way to demonstrate whether crime is pathological or normal, as it supports a somewhat social cohesion as it highlights the social norms and values that are supported in any society (Durkheim, 1982), and in ways how a society has created a collection of social norms and values, once a subject has risen against these norms, it reflects on the social reaction on how work with deviancy within the society. Crime whether it categorised through the written or unwritten laws, it creates a conscious of shared interests and values, in which is based upon the standard social norms formed through the authorising agreement and policies drawn upon by the powerful. Though Durkheim highlights that he suggests that any volume of crime is classified as normal as it occurs in all societies to an extent that it does not breach a social capability of the existence of criminality. Durkheim ‘Normal social conditions’ are contributors for which are still significant factors throughout and across societies, whereas other conditions, they are categorised within two motives being a more sinister or irrational act within the society. It was suggested that criminal impulses are not socially driven but can also derive from