Guoming. 1993. A Chinese perspective of communication competence. Paper presented at the annual convention of the speech communication association‚ Miami Beach‚ FL. Goffman‚ E. 1967. Interactional Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books. Goffman‚ E. 1972. Interactional Ritual. London:Penguin. Goffman‚ E. 1971. Relations in Public: Macrostudies of the Public Order. Mao‚ L. R. 1994. Beyond politeness theory: "face" revisited and renewed. Journal of Pragmatics 21:451-86
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Focault Panopticism "Our society is not one of spectacle‚ but of surveillance; under the surface of images‚ one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange‚ there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a centralization of knowledge; the play of signs defines the anchorages of power; it is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated‚ repressed‚ altered by our social
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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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book Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason‚ Foucault traces the evolution of the concept of madness during three eras: the Renaissance‚ the Classical Age and the modern society. In chapter “ Great Confinement”‚ Foucault describes a movement across Europe in the 17th century‚ which saw the establishment of institutions‚ which locked up people who were deemed to be “abnormal”. According to Foucault‚ “ Madness was perceived through a condemnation of idleness and in a social
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asserting it. This idea of panopticism is not only evident in a panopticon‚ but also in many types of society and situations today. Mothers and fathers‚ athletes‚ and musicians have all experienced this at some point. In his essay Panopticism Michel Foucault is asserting that the structure of the Panopticon demonstrates the distribution of power in our society. The Panopticon is a design for a prison; its layout is a large circular room and along the edge of the room are individual cells where the prisoners
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that forces us to. Although there are many scientists‚ sociologists‚ doctors and psychologists who have contributed to the study and works of Queer theory‚ the four that this essay focuses on are Jacques Derrida‚ Michel Foucault‚ Alfred Kinsey and Judith Butler. Derrida‚ Foucault and Kinsey all contributed separate theories‚ and Butler brought them together to give us one of the most basic understandings we have of Queer Theory today. First‚ Jacques
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OVERVIEW OF THEORIES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR & THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS TO SOCIAL WORK GENERALIST PRACTICE The following is a very general outline summarizing the theories covered in the NCSSS foundation classes of SSS 571: Human Behavior & the Social Environment. Theory application & integration with practice are demonstrated. This outline is only a summary of highlights; all theorists‚ ideas‚ and concepts are not included. Because human behavior is complex and the social work profession is
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Madeline Emotions English 315 September 15‚ 2012 Emotions Emotions occur in relationships. There are many different types of relationships‚ including intimate‚ friendly‚ and family relationships. The type of relationship I am going to focus on is an intimate relationship. This is one of the most interesting types of relationships because there are many different feelings and emotions that occur ranging from happiness to sadness‚ excitement to anger‚ and feeling “in love” to feeling “out
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Collinicos‚ A * Culler‚ J. (1982) On Deconstruction: Theory and criticism after structuralism‚ Ithaca‚ NY: Cornell university Press. * Evans‚ Judith. Feminist Theory Today: An Introduction to Second-Wave Feminism. London: SAGE publication‚ 1995. * Foucault‚ M. * ’ ’ (1972) The Archaeology of knowledge and the Discourse on Language‚ New York: Tavistock Publications & Harper Colophon. * "(1979) (published in French‚ 1975) Discipline and Punish‚ Translated by S * ’ ’ (1980) Power/Knowledge:
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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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