Earth" like Foucault’s "Discipline and Punish" question the basic assumptions that underlie society. Both books writers come from vastly different perspectives and this shapes what both authors see as the technologies that keep the populace in line. Foucault coming out of the French intellectual class sees technologies as prisons‚ family‚ mental institutions‚ and other institutions and cultural traits of French society. In contrast Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower middle class
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Crucial Concepts in Argumentation Theory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press‚ 2001. Eemeren‚ F.H. van‚ and R. Grootendorst (1984)‚ Speech acts in argumentative discussions Foucault‚ M. (1966)‚ Les Mots et les Choses. Paris: Gallimard. Garfinkel‚ H. (1967)‚ Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs‚ NJ: PrenticeHall. Goffman‚ E. (1981)‚ Forms of talk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Grice‚ H. P. (1957)‚ Meaning‚ Philosophical Review 66‚ 377-388. Reprinted in H. P. Grice‚ Studies
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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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Question 1: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) was a symbolic interactionist that pointed out just how essential play was to one’s development of "self". To speak on this topic‚ first I need to define just what the term "self" means. The author of the text‚ James M. Henslin‚ defines self as the unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves "from the outside"; the views we internalize of how others see us. Mead believed that as children begin and continue to play with those around them they
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Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/469/engl-300 ENGL-300: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE Lecture 19 - The New Historicism [March 31‚ 2009] Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism [00:00:00] Professor Paul Fry: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties‚ called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I’ll turn to in a minute and‚ as I say‚ prevalent to a remarkable
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Deconstructing the Psychopath: A Critical Discursive Analysis Author(s): Cary Federman‚ Dave Holmes and Jean Daniel Jacob Source: Cultural Critique‚ No. 72 (Spring‚ 2009)‚ pp. 36-65 Published by: University of Minnesota Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25619824 . Accessed: 06/06/2013 23:02 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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Perspective The dramaturgical perspective was developed primarily by Sociologist‚ Erving Goffman who recast the theatrical metaphor dramaturgy into a sociological term‚ meaning that social life is like a drama or stage play where intricacies of social interaction could be observed and analyzed‚ and people can perform in a manner that communicates how they would like others to perceive of them. Goffman stated that‚ “All actions are social performances that aim to give off and maintain certain
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Foucault writes of the panopticon‚ “It is an important mechanism for it automatizes and dis-individualizes power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies‚ surfaces‚ lights‚ gazes: in an arrangement
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Princess Puffer engages Jasper in a conversation from which we learn about the effects that opium has on him‚ she hands him a pipe filled with the drug: According to Foucault “starting in the nineteenth century‚ […] monstrosity is systematically suspected of being behind all criminality. Every criminal could well be a monster (Foucault‚ Abnormal
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What is meant by identity?Identity can be defined as how I see myself and how others see me. (Woodward‚ 2007‚ p7). Identity can be confused with personality. Where personality describes certain qualities individuals may have such as being confident and outgoing or shy and introvert‚ identity requires some degree of choice. Identity is marked by similarity and identities are formed through interaction between people. We choose to belong and identify with a particular identity or group. This sense
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