politics – that shape lives. It simultaneously alerts researchers to their unavoidable participation in these relations‚ opening up a much-needed conversation about the role of theory in politics. Keywords: Problematization; Poststructuralism; Foucault; Public Policy; Comparative Politics; Ethics Introduction At a time when concerns about the knowledge status of research and the role of the researcher are paramount‚ problematizations provide a fertile field of study. To support this claim I
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of George Orwell’s Big brother figure‚ both are very similar and provide common characteristics of constant monitoring and the unknown presence. First and foremost‚ the most noticeable commonality between these two are the features of constant surveillance. In the novel 1984 main character‚ Winston Smith‚ along with all the other citizens of London live in a forever state of despair knowing that their city is always monitored. Particularly in London‚ every
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1 TMA04 Word count 1472. Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman`s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces?. This essay will look at the ordering of motor vehicles and pedestrians ‚in order to compare and contrast Colin Buchanan’s Traffic in towns 1963 government commissioned report‚ with Hans Monderman’s thesis 1982.It will also look briefly at further accounts of social order that of philosopher Micheal Foucault’s macro dimensions of social life and sociologists
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building designed by Jeremy Bentham‚ an English philosopher and social theorist. His panopticon involves a building containing a tower located at the center‚ therefore allowing each cell of a prisoner or schoolboy incarcerated to be seen. Michel Foucault says‚ “Full lighting and the eye of a supervisor capture better than darkness‚ which is ultimately protected. Visibility is a trap”. In the same retrospect‚ the same false ideology can be applied to education since similarly‚ it is also a trap. Evidently
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within the British as the ruling class in a position of total control. Foucault terms the Great Trigonometric Survey as the ideal instrument of disciplinary control which physically involved the british cartographer looking down upon india from a position of physical height. It was reminiscent of the Benthamite panopticon – an instrument of permanent‚ exhaustive and omnipresent surveillance. State obsession with surveillance has continued after independence visible even today with the robust push
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Crozier‚ Michael‚ Huntington‚ Samuel‚ Watanuki‚ Joji (1975) The Crisis of Democracy. New York University Press: New York Davis‚ Angela (2003) Are Prisons Obsolete? Foucault‚ Michel (1975) Discipline and Punish: The birth of the Prison. Random House: New York Hobbes‚ Thomas Lemke‚ Thomas (2001) ’The Birth of bio-politics: Michael Foucault ’s ectures at the College de France on neo-liberal governmentaity ’ in Economy and Society v.30‚ 1.2 Marx‚ Karl (1848) The Communist Manifesto Orbach and Chambers
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Sociology of Medicine (Health and Illness) Words are inadequate… “Medical sociology centers on the social construction of health and illness –that is‚ a construction shaped by many elements of the social order and often independent from biomedical phenomena. In this perspective‚ medical sociology links together and makes sense of the varied manifestations of health and illness: biomedical data‚ professional practice‚ institutional structures‚ social policy‚ economics and financing
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Essay Topic Topic 15 Introduction * The 19th century heralded the arrival of the Industrial Revolution‚ which wrought unprecedented socioeconomic and technological changes in England‚ transforming it into a modern industrial society. This essay examines the impact that these changes have had on the design and construction of two new building types‚ namely the railway station and prison. * This essay argues that the design and construction of railway stations in England had to be adapted
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following the order of their leader as they respect their leader and the leader position (Blau in Tiedens‚ 2001). The next will be expert power which an individual have knowledge or specific skills that can influence others without rely heavily on surveillance as control (French & Raven in Warren‚ 1969). As for referent power‚ it’s defined as based on individual personal traits‚ behaviour‚ beliefs‚ perceptions and desirable resources (French & Raven in Warren‚ 1969). As for Weber (1954) defined
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understand that it is for the common good. The government arranges things in such a way that it feels like the appropriate thing to do. Sovereignty on the other hand means adherence to the law. This distinction was the turning point according to Foucault where law becomes less important and more importance is given to things which the government manages and the processes it directs and the instruments used by the government to perform these
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