A social order involves a sense of how individuals all fit together in shared spaces. Social order could not be made and repaired unless individuals were able to make sense of‚ and make use of‚ shared norms which govern our behaviour in shared spaces. The ordinariness of these shared norms and expectations means that we often take social order for granted because it is so much a part of our ordinary everyday actions. In fact‚ we only tend to become aware of the complexity of social ordering when
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When it comes to bodily discipline‚ particularly in schools‚ children are at an entire lack of control. Children’s bodies are regulated in a plethora of ways. This can be viewed through the concept of bio power; a term coined by Foucault‚ meaning bodies that exempt docility and are prepared to comply (Allen‚ 2009). Some examples of this discussed in lecture that are demonstrated in the school system include: dress codes‚ curriculum‚ classroom rules and expectations as well as many
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Foucault states that one can only exist alongside the other‚ which means that the knowledge about sex killers is only available due to power relations. Whilst simultaneously‚ because of power relations‚ knowledge about sex killers is available. For example
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He does not explain this in depth nor does he explain how it fits in with society. Edward W Said states: other critics of Foucault argue he did not go in depth when explaining the struggle between individuality and society. Foucault did not give a purpose for the struggle or a goal to be obtained. Why should complete individuality be the ultimate purpose in life? “For Foucault there seems to be no focal point‚ but rather an endless network of relations” (Hoy‚ 1986: 55). If a person were to believe
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The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions
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In 1990‚ Judith Buttler wrote “Gender Trouble” which explored how gender and sexuality standarized in the construction of social theories. While inspired by Foucault‚ Lacan‚ Freud and Simon de Beauvior about sexuality‚ Buttler constructed their theories. Buttler use “the vocabularies of movement” as strategy to construct that is very uniqueness and became the burden of human manifestation‚ i.e. gender‚ sexes‚ and body. The social phenomenon develop too fast‚ while “the vocabularies of movement” are
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Different sociological theories advance different arguments about the way in which particular forms of social power (political‚ economic‚ cultural & technological)‚ shape distinctive characteristics of modern societies and the consequent changes in previous forms of such power. Debates about power necessarily involve different understandings of both the nature of social reality (ontology)‚ and how we best go about acquiring knowledge of that reality (epistemology). An important issue in this debate
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script which is irrevocably linked to the governing discourse on sexuality (power-knowledge). The concept of power to Foucault is that which is enforced not by authoritative top-down legal policing
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In Paul Smoke’s article‚ which analyzes the use of subnational revenue for decentralization efforts‚ he claims that generating subnational revenue often fails even when normative instruction has been followed. In an attempt to shed light to this oddity‚ he posses the question‚ “are the principles inappropriate‚ or are they just poorly applied?” He later goes on to demonstrate how both elements hinder decentralization efforts (Smoke 2013). This notion of principle versus practice echoes an issue psychiatry
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* 3 Dimension (invisible): domination that is difficult to measure or identify – hidden‚ insidious. (eg. Marxism‚ communism‚ poverty‚ ideology) * WHO: actor centered theory of power (celebrity products/people) * MICHEL FOUCAULT: * Interested in institutional and disciplinary power as “ regimes of truth” (the DE individualism of power) * Concerned with the institutional and disciplinary power we have – not just on the individual * Mechanisms
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