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    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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    Erving, Goffman Review

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    Erving Goffman. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Review by J R Erving Goffman has completed a wonderful presentation of human behaviour and face-to-face interactions‚ of a first meeting between two people‚ who may or may not have an audience. The use of a theatrical performance to explain the interaction was indeed an ingenious idea that kept me intrigued until the very end. This book was written in 1959 but its referencing to human behaviour is still very much relevant to today’s life

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    Michele Foucault Biopower

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    Michel Foucault wrote a book called History of Sexuality. In Part five of the book Right of Death and Power over Life‚ he discusses about the historical “Sovereign Power” where one is allowed to decide who has the right to live and who has the right to die. The sovereign uses his power over life through the deaths that he can command and uses his authority to announce death by the lives he can spare. Foucault then moves on to Disciplinary Power where he came up with the “Panopticon” where one

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    histrionem‚” which are Latin for “All the world is a theatre”. In his theory‚ Goffman views individuals as actors in society where “interactions are viewed as performances” (Barnhart‚ A.D.‚) the individual attempts to create an impression on the world in which these impressions “exist regardless of the mental state of the individual” (Barnhart‚ A.D.‚) meaning‚ how the individual acts is not entirely voluntary but also involuntary. Social structure refers to “ the people in a society considered as a system

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    care as the confession of it was more important‚ requiring a stricter ritual and promising more decisive effects)?” History of Sexuality‚ Scientia Sexualis (pg. 61) Based on the above quote from Scientia Sexualis‚ in The History of Sexuality‚ Foucault writes about the nature of secrecy and confession in terms of sexuality. The first sentence explains that‚ “from the Christian penance to the present day‚” the concept of sex is one in which people keep to a confessional manner. Throughout history

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    Critique of Dorothy Cohen

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    A critique of: “Elements of Effective Layout‚” by Dorothy Cohen Marketing‚ a strategy to attract a person’s attention to a visual element‚ is part of today’s commercially based economy. In Dorothy Cohen’s Elements of Effective Layout‚ the author illustrates her principle argument through means of persuasion focuses on how a given layout can indeed attract attention and how the dominant requisites of an effective marketing layout are‚ in fact‚ balance‚ movement‚ proportion‚ simplicity and clarity

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    KEY CONCEPTS CULTURE IS COMMUNICATION In physics today‚ so far as we know‚ the galaxies that one studies are all controlled by the same laws. This is not entirely true of the worlds created by humans. Each cultural world operates according to its own internal dynamic‚ its own prin­ ciples‚ and its own laws-written and unwritten. Even time and space are unique to each culture. There are‚ however‚ some common threads that run through ;:111 cultures. It is possible to say that the world

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    Michel Foucault on Discourse

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    Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular

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    Foucault Power Analysis

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    distribution‚ and the way relations of power unfold. The problem is that Foucault seems to imply that all social phenomena‚ from education‚ law‚ policing‚ discipline‚ governance (the institutions that form society’s infrastructure)‚ the apparatuses that engender and affect cultural and familial life‚ are reducible to an analysis of the relations of power operating within. Power is described as ubiquitous and embedded within the social fabric‚ so that there is no society without conflicts of power relations

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    Foucault- Truth and Power

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    the truth also changes. It means‚ Foucault’s discourse is related to the production of any information that provides knowledge. Once the discourse is created‚ knowledge about some aspect of life is provided. Thus knowledge helps create truth. But‚ Foucault himself admits that such truth is neither true nor false.     The power is generated in society by producing the discourses‚ and by constructing truths. Such power is creative. Marxist power is just political and economic whereas Foucauldian power

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