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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An essay on how different Social Science disciplines can research and evaluate a social issue which in this assignment is unemployment Introduction The Social Sciences consist of a variety of disciplines which include Philosophy‚ History‚ Anthropology‚ Sociology‚ Economics and Social Policy (NUI Handbook 2011). These Sciences are normally named as there is a system to studying these subjects and applying empirical data to scientific research in analysing certain aspects of society whether it is
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Michel Foucault’s book entitled Discipline and Punish‚ which was published in 1975‚ provided a new approach to the way historians approach not only the historical field but the philosophical approach to the history of power controls. Foucault’s thesis is that the modern prison provides a model for other institutions in a disciplinary society in which the transition into the age of modernity has caused institutions to be compelled to control the time of the individual. Foucault does this through four
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In the first part of Discipline and Punishment‚ Michel Foucault argues that‚ over the course of a few short centuries‚ the penal system shifted its target from the criminal’s body to their soul. Foucault locates this shift in the transition from public torture to prisons; from punishment as a public means of expressing force to a private means of correcting and preventing nonconformity. Punitive power has been replaced with disciplinary power‚ and discipline works on the soul rather than the body
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Throughout the centuries‚ both the system and the concept of prison have undergone many radical changes that eventually led to the formation of the prison as we know it now. In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ prison tended to be a place where criminals were kept in it while awaiting their punishment. It was a place‚ where criminals were held‚ rather than a means of punishment. In fact‚ criminals‚ at that time‚ were publically punished‚ rather than imprisoned‚ in the most torturous ways such as whipping
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enforcement officers can’t be everywhere at the same time‚ so what is it that keeps our society in check the majority of the time? In Michele Foucault’s chapter “Panoptiticism” from his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison‚ he elaborates on Jeremy Bentham’s idea of a panopticon‚ focusing on the role of discipline as an instrument of power. What makes the panopticon successful is the idea of an ever-constant surveillance‚ which the prisoners of the panopticon are always aware of. Panopticism
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SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION CMNS 323-4 (W)* (D100) Instructor: Brad King Spring Semester 2012 Email: bka10@sfu.ca Burnaby Day Twitter: @btcking ------------------------------------------------- CULTURAL DIMENSIONS IN ADVERTISING Prerequisites: 60 units‚ including two of CMNS 220‚ 221‚ 223 or 226. CMNS 362 or 363 is strongly recommended. Overview: Advertising
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The Birth of Linguistics as an Autonomous Discipline – Q1 The term linguistics was first used in the middle of the 19th century. The earliest Greek linguistic notions are from 5th – 4th century b.c. And grammatical description became a profession in the 17th c. Plato’s dialogue “Cratilus” is the first Western document of linguistic analysis‚ hiss notion of language is that each word has an underlying form which express the meaning of that word in a transparent way. Additionally‚ words are
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Abstract Positive discipline is a policy that attempts to handle employee problems in a non-punishment manner. The goal is to retain a productive employee rather than to punish and eliminate a bad employee. Positive discipline programs must be structured and understandable by employees and supervisors and the steps of a positive discipline program should be followed and documented. Positive Discipline in the Work Place Most people spend many hours of their lives at the place where they
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