FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at
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Prison” seeks to identify the origins of Discipline systems and the effects of these processes on society. Foucault focuses on the role of power in establishing societal norms‚ and the consequences that arise when individuals deviate from those norms. Foucault critiques the enlightenment’s effect on society through an examination of the processes for correcting these deviations. Foucault focuses on prison systems primarily‚ but also extends his analysis to question the processes of hospitals.
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In “The Use of Pleasure‚” Foucault addresses that‚ “Moderation‚ understood as an aspect of dominion over the self‚ was an equal footing that qualified a man to exercise his mastery over others” (p. 81). In the context of who is being addressed in this excerpt is a ‘man’ and not man
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According to Erving Goffman moral career is defined as a person who has a particular stigma tend to have similar learning experiences regarding their plight and similar changes in the conception of self which causes an effect of commitment to a similar sequence of personal adjustment. Goffman basically means is once an individual is born with a certain stigma they become influenced by it throughout their life. The stigmatized individual might have families that keep them in a protecting environment
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Although controversial to categorize as a system of thought‚ postmodernism does have an overall fixation on efficiency’s crucial role in shaping society and our beliefs. Two thinkers who focus on this issue are Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Foucault; this essay will analyze how efficiency is a crucial element in their philosophies. Lyotard’s initial conception of efficiency is as one of many language-games. Lyotard borrows from Wittgenstein by formulating that various linguistic utterances
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life By: Erving Goffman What Goffman writes about is how an individual reacts when they come into the presence of others. He tries to come up with a type of human model that represents how individuals try to perceive others with knowledge that was previously obtained. According to Goffman‚ information about the individual helps to setup the situation‚ which in turn helps others to predict what the individual might expect of them or vice versa. If analyzed
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Goffman’s insights on the professional sense of self‚ the self that we project “on stage for others‚” are a relevant one. It strikes at the very being of one’s sense of self in the professional realm. Goffman might very well suggest that the sense of loyalty to the group that overrides what they would deem immoral is a reflection of the "drama" that compels individuals to act for the sake of others:" And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe
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DISCIPLINE DISCIPLINE AD PUNISH- MICHEAL FOUCAULT The chapter on discipline begins with the seventeenth century image of the soldier. A soldier bore certain natural signs of strength and courage and marks of his pride and honor. These were characteristics which were already inherent in a soldier. By the late eighteenth century‚ a soldier became someone or rather something that can be made‚ like a required machine which can be constructed. The Classical Age discovered the body as a target and
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Examine the view that Erving Goffman’s work focuses on forms of social interaction but ignores social structure. Erving Goffman was born on the 11th June 1922 in Mannville‚ Canada. In 1939‚ Goffman enrolled at the University of Manitoba where he pursued an undergraduate degree in chemistry; however he then took an interest for sociology while working temporarily at the National Film Board in Ottawa. This was the motivation that he then needed to go on and enrol at the University of Toronto where
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Prostitution A Marxist & Foucauldian Analysis Prostitution is a largely debated‚ controversial subject. This is due to different moral and ethical views‚ religious perspectives and legal matters. Some say it is a job like any other‚ however the lack of tax payment and regular check-ups denies this. Others say it is ethically wrong to pay in order to obtain sex‚ because it is essentially the sale of one’s body. Legally speaking‚ it is only illegal to buy sex‚ but perfectly okay to sell it.
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