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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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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that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated‚ repressed‚ altered by our social order‚ it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it‚ according to a whole technique of forces and bodies." (240‚ Foucault)In the essay‚ Panopticism‚ by Michel Foucault‚ he makes the argument that we live in a society of "surveillance". It is mainly this surveillance that forms the basis of authority that draws the individual to believe that the world he lives in is one that is continually
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storyline of the book‚ Discipline and Punish discusses the history of the penal system that exists today. He also takes the opportunity to focus on how it has changed from decades before and what factors have contributed to such a drastic change. Foucault also uses his ideas of power and discourse to debate how they have both influenced the rise of the form of modern day punishment that we experience today. The author also relates the penal system and the process of it to reflect the sense of social
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De Guzman‚ J.E. Philo 104 – Section Y Homosexuality and Femininity in the Light of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish September 11‚ 2012 Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality‚ demonstrates that the tools of disciplinarity (which emerged in the confluence of critical‚ historical upheavals immediately preceding the modern age‚ such as geometric demographic expansion‚ reconfiguring global financial and mercantile apparatuses‚ the redefinition of territorial boundaries
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What Is an Author? Michel Foucault‚ 1969 The coming into being of the notion of "author" constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas‚ knowledge‚ literature‚ philosophy‚ and the sciences. Even today‚ when we reconstruct the history of a concept‚ literary genre‚ or school of philosophy‚ such categories seem relatively weak‚ secondary‚ and super imposed scansions in comparison with the solid and fundamental unit of the author and the work. I shall not offer here a
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Design of an LQG controller for two inverted pendulums Objective: The objective of this paper is to design linear quadratic controllers for a system with two inverted pendulums on 2-d Plane. To this goal‚ it has to be determined which control strategy delivers better performance with respect to pendulum’s angle and the cart’s position. The inverted pendulums represents a challenging control problem‚ since it continually moves toward
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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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described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind‚ in a quantity hitherto without example.” Michel Foucault‚ a French philosopher and historian of ideas uses this term in his book Discipline and Punish the Birth of the Prison as a metaphor to explain society. I will try to breakdown this metaphor to explain what Foucault means by this. Foucault explains we are living in a system where everything we do is survellience‚ thus we are living in a panopticon. We may feel
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Ballistic Pendulum Lab Objective: Determine the velocity of the projectile as it reaches the pendulum. Hypothesis: Firstly‚ we guess that the outcome of the velocity of the projectile is 6.3 meters per second [left].The formulas we use to find the final velocity of the projectile are Trigonometry‚ Kinetic and Potential Energy‚ and Momentum. Mass of the pendulum = 80.0g Mass of the ball = 7.64g Length of the string = 21cm Equipment: Ballistic pendulum device Metal
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