8 Misleading images of Sociology as depicted in Peter Berger’s article:1.Sociologists are social workers; they are seen as professionals helping out people in the community. This is an inaccurate image of sociologists as sociological knowledge can be useful to people of varying professions and anyone concerned with action in the society. These actions however‚ are not specifically humanitarian. They are not related to the character of the information itself. 2.Sociologists are perceived as theoretician
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looking back on the development of the gaze and how it has developed into days society andespacially in the form of music videos. John berger observed that ‘ according to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by omeans been overcome - men act and women appear. Men look atowomen. Women watch themselves being looked at’(Berger 1972‚45‚47) Berger first saw the idea of the male gaze when he arued that in European art form the renaissance onwars women were deoicted as beinf ‘aware
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architectural design of a building that enables the one who possesses agency to see each cell that a subject of power is incarcerated to. Foucault writes that “Visibility is a trap” (Foucault‚ 286) because the tower is used to “induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power” (Foucault‚ 288). Foucault views that Bentham’s panopticon is a physical representation of a power dynamic that he sees in play in culture - the one in which he so
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‘.. Rear Window reads like an ironic reversal of Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’ as exploited by Foucault’ Write an essay exploring the significance of the surveillant theme evident in the film Rear Window. “We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms – what people ought to do is get outside their house and look in for a change.” – Stella‚ Rear Window‚ 1954. The theme of surveillance is all too clear in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film‚ ‘Rear Window’. From the opening credits‚ we immediately get a sense of what
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material presented in class‚ assignments‚ and any announcements. References Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann The Social Construction of Reality; A Treatise on the
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It carries the expression of power and it is used as a mean of discipline through the exploitation of surveillance. Panopticonism is a way to control every man in to agreeing with the system that can take many different forms and fashions. John Berger and his views towards art historians mystifying paintings are branched from the panoptic schema used by the “ruling class” to inspect‚ sort‚ and oppress the public. As indicated by Bentham‚ Panopticonism is “a great new instrument of government…;
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importantly‚ being pressured by the hierarchical gaze from the state apparatuses‚ individuals adapt this way of seeing and gaze at themselves in order to fit the requirements of “the surveyed”(Berger 46). The essay will firstly show that the state apparatuses’ hierarchical gaze is a particular form of what Michel Foucault called “medical gaze”. To illustrate this idea‚ I will discuss different
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examined. In tutorial‚ we discussed the questions brought up by our own regarding to Laura Kipnis and Stevi Jackson and Sue Scot’s work. Since my tutorial questions were raised based on Kipnis’ work‚ my reflection will also focus on her work. Kipnis in her work relates monogamy to social relation and pointed out that most people have high possibility to cheat on their spouse. From my perspective‚ Kipnis believes that marriage is against love. When she relates monogamy as a social relation to
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The concept of ‘panopticism’ was originally developed by Michael Foucault from his book Discipline and Punishment (1977) pp195-228‚ Foucault describe panopticon as “mechanism that coerces by means of observation”(pp:195)‚ at the time of writing his theory‚ there was a lot that was going on around Foucault such as the disband of the soviet union in china had led to a rethinking of socialism‚ changes in term of the nature of production as well as the industrialisation all of these led to a rethinking
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