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    Foucauldian Studies and Hrm

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    Foucauldian Studies and HRM Chenchen Liu Abstract When discussing and analyzing the nature of human resource management‚ Foucault‚ who not studying HRM‚ gives us much space to think about HRM in different ways. His theory on discourse‚ power and knowledge greatly influence the studies on HRM. This paper will follow Foucauldian studies on HRM‚ discussing three contributions Foucauldianism studies on HRM including HRM as discourse‚ HRM and

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    Brad Wartman Professor John McGlothlin Eng-W 131 22 October 2011 Microtheme 4 The panoptic schema makes any apparatus of power more intense… It is a way of obtaining from power (Foucault 161). Foucault states that the Panopticon is set up in a way that a prisoner is forced to be self-discipline. The Panopticon is a building set up like a tower in the center with windows. “The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad…one is totally seen‚ without being ever seen; in

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    Sociology of Psychiatry

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    Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) and Michel Foucault (1926-1984) are widely considered as the key figures when discussing contesting perspectives on modern psychiatry. Similarities can be drawn between Szasz and Foucault in general terms‚ in that they both believed that psychiatry was a product of pseudo-science. Both have criticisms on the limitations of psychiatry. Thomas Szasz‚ a psychiatrist‚ academic and author‚ has been a foundational figure for those who are strongly opposed to modern psychiatry.

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    Ethics in Administration

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    8/15/13 (2) A Foucaultian approach to gender and administrative ethics - Decat & Scheepers | sarah scheepers - Academia.edu 2 Search People‚ Research Interests and Universities Home Analytics Tamatam Siddareddy Upload Papers A Foucaultian approach to gender and administrative ethics - Decat & Scheepers more by sarah scheepers Share Download (.pdf) Decat_Scheepers.pdf 132 KB 31 Hide Sidebar www.academia.edu/2486416/A_Foucaultian_approach_to_gender_and_administrative_ethics_-_Decat_and_Scheepers

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    Panopticon

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    The author of the essay “Panopticism”‚ Michel Foucault gives his opinion on power and discipline in Panopticism. He describes Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon”‚ a tower in the centre of a room which has vision to every cell‚ generalized for prisoners. In simple words‚ it functioned in maintaining discipline throughout the jail. It’s most distinctive feature was that; prisoners could be seen without ever seeing. Prisoners would never really know when they are watched and when not. They are always under

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    power “can be exercised continuously in the very foundations of society‚ in the subtlest possible way”‚ and if “it functions outside of these sudden‚ violent‚ discontinuous forms that are bound up with the exercise of sovereignty.” Ultimately‚ Foucault argues‚ the “panoptic schema” makes it possible to “perfect the exercise of power”. However‚ given all of these advantages and how well it works in examples of panoptic spaces such as SAT testing centers‚ why‚ then‚ is society not‚ as Jeremy Bentham

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    Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book.  Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity.  Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published

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    in understanding contemporary British fiction‚ I will be using the example of ‘Sexing The Cherry’ written by Jeanette Winterson. The works that can be closely linked with this novel first published in 1989 are those of theorist and historian Michel Foucault. His ideas on sexuality mirror the ideas of sexuality used in Sexing The Cherry (Winterson. J 1989‚ 47-60). Postmodernism affects the way that we read a text‚ but why is that more important than reading a text for its own individual merit. Postmodernism

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    The Reforms of Michel Fokine Photography‚ painting‚ videography‚ and literature have all progressed over time. New technology‚ and new ways of thinking have brought these arts to new levels. There seems to be a broad misconception‚ though‚ that ballet is an art form that does not progress; does not change. Many people assume that ballet’s set vocabulary of movement places limitations on how far the art can expand. Little do many people realize that this vocabulary is a mere foundation

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    Designed by Jeremy Bentham‚ panopticism lays a heavy emphasis on the importance of effectively educating the youth. Education in a panoptic society is suppose “to ‘fortify’‚ to ‘develop the body’‚ [and] to prepare children ‘for a future in some …work’” (Foucault 224). A panoptic community allows children to be placed into their most natural learning environment so they can be most effective in their society as an adult. From an early age‚ children would be split up into specific careers paths so they could

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