What is Panopticism and what in the world does it pertain to? These are some of the questions that I asked myself as I began to read this interesting essay by Michel Foucault. His work is central to many of the Humanities and social science parts of life. He came up with idea that people govern themselves‚ and his Panopticism essay revolves basically around this central idea. There are many panoptic examples in society today that have both positive and negative connotation. Generally I believe the
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In simple terms‚ the panopticon effect is when people are trained to conduct in a way as if they were under constant surveillance (Brock 21). Through technological advancement in modern society‚ surveillance has become a model and is seen as a mean for security measures. This is due to the cameras in every shop‚ street and even in the sky. Nonetheless‚ it is a sensitive topic due to the risk of harming people’s privacy. Consequently‚ one cannot have both full privacy and full security (John Oliver)
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We live our lives according to norms that are created in society‚ but what disciplines us to make us follow and abide by those norms ? The ‘Institutional Gaze’ is known as the ability for an institution to have a constant‚ metaphorical gaze over everyone‚ which leads them to be able to control peoples behaviours at all times. Institutions create sets of rules‚ and regulations that they make known to discipline people in order to keep them to behave within what society views as normal. By looking
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In Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish‚ Foucault analyzes the concept of discipline and describes it as a concept in which people become “docile bodies” (Foucault 135)‚ which an entity of power can subject to it’s will in order to create the most productive and least political dissonant person possible. The theory that the change in governmental punitive systems from more violent forms of punishment to more jail-based forms occurred in order to create “disciplined” people‚ rather than because
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Crandell‚ 2004 cited in Passer‚ M.W. & Smith‚ R.E. 2007: 624). Subconsciously our daily lives are regulated and influenced by social norms. We take these social norms for granted. (Passer/Smith‚ 2007:624) We see these customs as “normal” but as Michel Foucault illustrates in “Discipline and Punish‚ the Birth of the Prison”‚ these norms and patterns of behavior are a lot more complex than we may think. After reading “Discipline and Punish” I was able to identify in greater detail how our society is governed
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“The Panopticon is a marvellous machine which‚ whatever use one may wish to put it to‚ produces homogenous effects of power” (Foucault 202). When people are observed constantly they develop discipline‚ and most dare to not violate any rules. Nearly everywhere we go‚ we are being observed‚ especially at work‚ schools‚ banks‚ or hospitals. We are expected to act and look a certain
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Birth of the Prison was published‚ it has been met with many criticisms due to the sociologist’s views on an array of subjects. Foucault contends that panopticism‚ more specifically the Panopticon‚ is the ideal form of discipline within the prison institution because it creates a setting in which the inmates subject themselves to real or perceived guards and surveillance. After careful analysis of Foucault’s text‚ 3 questions‚ the focal point of the present text‚ are proposed. First‚ how should prison
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passage from his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison called “Panopticism”‚ Michael Foucault tells of a society struck with plague and invested with Lepers‚ where they use the idea of Panopticism
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did the surveillance methods: prison administrations sought to have as few prison guards as possible to surveil as many prisoners possible. This is what the prison administration called effective and strategic surveillance. However‚ this couldn’t be done in the center of the city because the streets were overcrowding. Therefore‚ the idea of separate confinement‚ that was invisible from society‚ was thought of. The observing apparatus-the panoptic design of prison- as described by Foucault in Panopticism
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Cohen’s ‘net-strengthening’ of intensive surveillance involving families‚ employees and strangers could be used to explain why deviation was prevented from the ‘Disney Order’. For example‚ every Disney Productions employee is not only evidently busy with their roles but also busy in the preservation of order and surveillance (Shearing and Stenning‚ 1987). This supports his argument that the state’s authority to dominate people has
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