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    something bad is going to happen to them. In Michel Foucault’s essay‚ Panopticism‚ Foucault makes the claim that no matter where you turn‚ someone or something may be watching you. By doing this‚ Foucault also makes the claim that this would be the only way to keep society in tact. Now panopticism is not an actual building with guards watching over society‚ but it’s a diagram of hierarchy reduced to fit today’s society. Foucault explains in his essay that the diagram perfects the operation of power by increasing

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    riots‚ technically meaning that it should have regulated behaviour‚ which is one critique of this response. Michel Foucault’s ideas on punishment and crime are surrounding the exercise of power and domination‚ which can be seen through surveillance. He sees the purpose as being self-discipline through surveillance‚ through the shift in punishment from corporal punishment of the physical body in the pre-industrial society‚ to carceral in the post-industrial society. The shift being disciplining the mind

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    1. Medicalization is defined as being “the way in which increasing areas of social life are seen as falling under the remit of doctors” (Haralambos & Holborn‚ 2008:280). In modern society‚ where science is used to explain and define everything‚ it comes as no surprise that a simple problem‚ such as shyness or embarrassment‚ which can be dealt with by using other means is given a medical term and is dealt with through medical means. A simple and temporary infection such as the flu‚ which could be

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    goals in life. They were able to do so‚ based on the ranks that other men gave them. This system changed man in many ways and affected them both physically and mentally in this world that made them who they are today. “Masculinity as Homophobia” by Michael S. Kimmel‚ is an article that explains the world of men and their struggles in life proving their manhood to others and their fear of other men who are not manly enough. There are some arguments that the author mentions that talks about how manhood

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    Introducing philosophy to children is a very controversial subject. Michael S. Pritchard‚ the author of Reasonable Children‚ explores the concept of introducing philosophy to children within the schools before they enter their college years. Pritchard assumed that the study of philosophy should begin at a college level. At the start of this assignment my first reaction was similar to Pritchard’s‚ philosophy starts during the college years. I could never imagine discussing

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    M. Foucault‚ "What is an Author?" Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) dealt with many aspects of social philosophy during his career‚ but it is his philosophy surrounding the role and dominance of the author in modern literature that this essay aims to deal with. From the 19th century onwards‚ Foucault notices that through social and political frameworks‚ the presence of an author vastly dominates the content and categorisation of any publication of that author. He also throws into question the idea

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    reached through sexual liberation. Michel Foucault disagrees with this. Foucault rejects the repressive hypothesis‚ which claims that sex has been consistently repressed. According to Foucault‚ power and sexuality have a more complex relationship. He believes that the increase of discourse on the topic of sex and sexuality has increased the areas in which power can have an influence on people’s lives and is therefore and instrument of social control. Foucault explains that the discourse and will to

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    DISCIPLINE and discipline managing techniques 1. What is Discipline? Discipline has always been an essential and difficult aspect of education for without discipline there can be no effective teaching (Dreikurs et.al.1998:80). The meaning of discipline and the techniques of dealing with misbehaviour have been modified throughout the preceding decades. Especially the consolidation of democracy has transformed the sense of discipline and methods that were regular and acceptable ten or twenty years

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    example‚ bosses expect their employees to behave a certain way and they are disciplined if they do not conform to their rules and regulations. There are also many other people influencing you on a daily basis such as parents‚ friends and teachers. Michael Foucault’s essay “Panopticism” teaches in how we are always being watched effects our behavior and makes us conform is correct‚ but if there is any variation‚ it will not work‚ as proven in Kesey’s novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Par 2:

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    London: Thames & Hudson‚ pp. 256-75. 720.108 FOR Koolhaas‚ R. (2001) Junk space: The Debris of Modernization’‚ in C.J. Chung et al. (eds)‚ The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping‚ Köln: Taschen‚ 408-21 POWER / POLITICS Foucault‚ M. (1995) ‘Panopticism’‚ in Discipline and Punish‚ New York: Vintage‚ pp. 195-228. Forty‚ A. (1995) 364.60944 FOU Being or Nothingness: Private Experience and Public Architecture in Post War Britain’‚ Architectural History‚ vol. 38‚ pp. 25-35 NATURE / CULTURE

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