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    disorder in contemporary UK‚ I think that the concept of social order needs to be tackled first. I will do so by comparing and contrasting the work of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault‚ two social scientists that attempted to explain how order is created in society and where it comes from. I will then compare and contrast the work

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    Goffman and Foucault: Institutionalisation and Identity Social welfare institutions threaten people’s identity as they are built with the purpose of gathering ‘abnormal’ people from society and institutionalising them in order to create a better or just society (Dreyfus and Rabinow‚ 1982). Goffman and Foucault both discuss how institutions such as mental hospitals‚ prisons and even schools take away peoples identity by forcing them to be subordinated to a hierarchy of power; whereby they must follow

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    genuine choices make individuality‚ as well as being spontaneous. According to Mill‚ as humankind has gone further and further into civil society‚ the less likely it is to produce true individuals because the further conditioned people become. Michel Foucault‚ on the other hand‚ believes that this heavy conditioning of society has created the individual. As society has transitioned from punishing its people‚ to training

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    Gramsci and hegemony [pic] Graphic from http://www.i-italy.org. By Trent Brown Antonio Gramsci is an important figure in the history of Marxist theory. While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provided a rigorous analysis of capital at the social and economic levels – particularly showing how capital antagonises the working class and gives rise to crisis – Gramsci supplemented this with a sophisticated theory of the political realm and how it is organically/dialectically related to social

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    Antonio Gramsci – theories of hegemony‚ civil society and revolution   The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci remains hugely popular today across the left as well as in academic circles where a neo-Gramscian school of though crosses disciplines and generations. His most referred to works are his prison notebooks‚ a collection of articles and fragments that he wrote whilst languishing in Mussolini’s jail. What people value in Grasmsci is his contribution to political theory‚ including central concepts

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    Bora Sevilmis 10400 Question: What are the fundamental differences between sovereign power and disciplinary power according to Foucault? What are the major characteristics of disciplinary power? Why is it a more efficient form of power? Sovereign power is a type of power in which is traced back before the classical age‚ signifies the centrality of power. In this period‚ power was exercised through monarch it is the ruler who

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    TMA 04 Compare and contrast the views of Goffman and Foucault on how social oreder is produced. In a community some form of order is an essential foundation for people to live and interact together. ‘’Order is part of the way people both imagine and practise their social existence.’’ (Silva et al.‚ 2009‚ p. 311) Taylor (2004‚ p.58) argued that ‘’ the human capacity to imagine order is at the foundation of society itself.’’ (Taylor‚ cited in Silva et al.‚ 2009 p.311) Social order draw in imagination

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    Question 1- Panopticism In regards to Panopticism‚ Michel Foucault theorizes‚ “The exile of the leper and the arrest of the plague do not bring with them the same political dream.” I conclude that the term‚ “political dream”‚ is an idea where people use power and knowledge in an attempt to achieve a perfectly governed society. Gradually‚ social reforms transformed how the political dream was viewed. Over the past few hundred years‚ techniques for social reform have improved‚ leading up to where

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    Compare and Contrast Goffman’s and Foucaults Explanation of How Social Order Is Made and Remade In: Social Issues Compare and Contrast Goffman’s and Foucaults Explanation of How Social Order Is Made and Remade Introduction * Whose theories of social order I will be using as the focus of my assignment. (Goffman and Foucault) Main Content * Goffmans views on what constitutes social order being made and remade through individuals‚ and how Mondermans’ Thesis relates to how Goffman views social

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    438 Chapter 23 Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences Chapter 23 Comparison and Contrast Showing Similarities and Differences Writing Writing Comparison and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Finding Patterns in Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Practicing Patterns of Comparison and Contrast . . . 445 Readings for Critical Thinking‚ Discussion‚ and Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Suggested Topics and Prompts for

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