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GOFFMAN‚ SCHEFF AND SCASZ ARGUE THAT MENTAL ILLNESS IS A SOCIAL CONSTRCUTION. Mental illness is a general term referring to psychological‚ emotional‚ or behavioural disorders as well to the view that these disorders are diseases of the mind. Because it’s more to do with the psychological aspect‚ methods of treatment are different from a physical disability. A physical disability may involve treatment like acupuncture and traditional medicine whilst a mental illness (disability) treatment involves
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Discovery Guides Why Not the Sun? Advantages of and Problems with Solar Energy by Ethan Goffman I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. – Thomas Alva Edison‚ 1931 The oil embargo of the 1970s prompted a national surge of interest in solar energy. A solar water heater was installed in the White House‚ and photovoltaic panels first came into play‚ notably in California. While previously
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The social theorist‚ Michel Foucault was a firm believer that knowledge is power and with that he believed that knowledge derives from power. He exemplifies this with his second type of theory on punishment‚ “Disciplinary Power”‚ where he states that punishment is no longer about torturing but instead it is about control‚ training and education. With that‚ he uses Jeremy Bentham’s design of a building called the “Panopticon”‚ a disciplinary machine. It is a building with a tower at the center for
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work‚ Foucault establishes the trend of using power as a sort of political technology over the human body. According to Foucault‚ power relations transcend every facet of society‚ and are not simply localized in those relations between citizens and the government. Power must be aligned closely with the concept of knowledge. Basically‚ there is no power relation without a sort of constitution of knowledge‚ or any sort of knowledge not inferring to or allowing for power relations (Foucault‚ 27).
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In Ken Goffman’s Counterculture Through The Ages‚ Goffman cites Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound‚ in which Prometheus boasts that he “… brought humanity: architecture—‘they knew not how to build brick houses… they lived like swarming ants in sunless caves’; calenders—‘they had no certain mark of [the seasons]…
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Situated Knowledge and Power Essay #3 Michele Foucault said “modern forms of power are discursive and discreet.” He believed that power is crafted through language and the practices in which language is entrenched. Donna Haraway‚ like Foucault‚ thinks about power in a post-structuralist way‚ believing that it exist everywhere and shapes our reality. Both Foucault and Haraway see knowledge as a form of power‚ through knowledge institutions are able to control and define what truth is. Haraway
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Walking around barefoot did not contradict or disrupt my presentation in a way which halted my ability to perform daily functions. I was not stopped‚ harassed‚ laughed at‚ or demeaned. Of course my behavior was impressed within pre-existing interactions and relationships within a community. I am a young‚ white‚ female college co-ed. I dress like I come from an upper-middle class family: and I do. The result is that the chances of my shoeless-ness being interpreted as a sign of poverty or vagrancy
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without being seen by the jailers. This architectural design which expanded to other institutions like the psychiatric asylum‚ the reformatory‚ the school and the hospital seems to fit in only one framework of power_ the disciplinary power. Michel Foucault develops this postmodern social theory of power that turns away from the traditional third-dimensional view of power. Rather than see power as localised in an individual‚ in a state acting or in a ruling ideological class‚ the French philosopher
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As society evolves through time‚ concepts and perceptions in relation to the construction of deviance are altered as new cultural customs are installed; and when analyzing such topic‚ two different approaches can be analyzed. To a functionalist approach‚ Emile Durkheim argues that deviance is bound to occur through an individual’s experience with freedom‚ once norms developed are distinct in different societies. Conjunctively‚ the sociologist argued that deviance is necessary for a successful society
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