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    Moral power stems from tradition and a feeling of obligation to one’s fellow community members. Durkheim describes it by writing “When a native is asked why he follows his rites‚ he replies that ancestors have always done so and that he must follow their example

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    PUNISH- MICHEAL FOUCAULT The chapter on discipline begins with the seventeenth century image of the soldier. A soldier bore certain natural signs of strength and courage and marks of his pride and honor. These were characteristics which were already inherent in a soldier. By the late eighteenth century‚ a soldier became someone or rather something that can be made‚ like a required machine which can be constructed. The Classical Age discovered the body as a target and object of power. Attention was

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    Although controversial to categorize as a system of thought‚ postmodernism does have an overall fixation on efficiency’s crucial role in shaping society and our beliefs. Two thinkers who focus on this issue are Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Foucault; this essay will analyze how efficiency is a crucial element in their philosophies. Lyotard’s initial conception of efficiency is as one of many language-games. Lyotard borrows from Wittgenstein by formulating that various linguistic utterances

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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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    Theorists Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault present their views on the power/knowledge affiliation in works such as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. While reading the pair‚ it becomes almost impossible not to relate or apply their visions onto the contemporary society. One may even argue that they resonate with current systems of government. Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ albeit a collection of articles for the New Yorker‚ was published

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    Power-Control Theory Tiondra Lee Kaplan College Abstract In this paper I will describe my family environment based on Hagan’s Power- Control Theory‚ I will explain paternalistic and egalitarian families and which behavior my family is affected by. When comparing Hagan’s Power-Control Theory an individual wonders about their environment and how it affects there family. Hagan created a critical

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    is just a passing meaning. But the other side of gender‚ the embodied side‚ is more concerning and has a impact on people‚ which can affect people in positive and negative ways. Foucault‚ a famous philosopher and social theorist came up with the theory of the Self-Policing‚ Internalized Panopticon‚ which is the theory that people are policed‚ managed‚ and watched so often that they start doing it to themselves. Everything you do is scrutinized and ridiculed by yourself‚ which I believe fits in well

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    make a societal change. The article covers New York City’s drop in crime rates during the 1990s‚ attributing the decline to the Broken Window Theory by claiming that people’s behavior is heavily influenced by their environment. Thus‚ small things‚ such as graffiti or dilapidated buildings‚ will inevitably lead to increased crime. His Power of Context Theory is quite similar‚ claiming that the immediate context of one’s environment is most important in guiding one’s actions (Gladwell 164). Essentially

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    that determine the norm are subject to the complex social process of normalization. Initially proposed by Michael Foucault in his 1975 text ‘Discipline and Punish’ normalization is the influence of disciplinary power on determining a norm of societal conduct. According to Foucault‚ sovereign powerpower attributed to a specific authority was superseded by disciplinary power. This power cannot be attributed to a specific individual and although invisible‚ renders the individual ‘hyper-visible’ (Heyes

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    Structure as patterns of relations. Structures are applicable to people in how a society is as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships. Power as influence over those relations. The structure of any organization‚ seen in this way‚ will partly be the outcome of the efforts of managers and other organizational designers to structure tasks‚ activities and establish a controlling hierarchy of command (Watson‚ 2008). A sharp distinction should be made between the formal structure

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