SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault, Knowledge Power, Sylvester Stallone
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Challenges the understanding of knowledge and society that"s presented by the structuralists. He disagrees with the master narratives like marx. He argues we shouldn"t argue, focus on local and specific. The belief that we are all being watched, the potential to be judged by those watching us leans towards disciplinary society, internalize the judgement of others. Discourses: a set of ideas, languages and practices. For foucault, knowledge is produced through discourses. Produced in small scale interactions (local environment) Discourses circulate wildly different from marx"s conception of ideology. Foucault"s knowledge refers to what it means to be a person. We discover what crimes are from movies, music, parents, news, laws and etc. Graffiti is a mode of discursive knowledge. I. e. feminist movements = to be a young woman, you have to have a certain body type, feminist movements want to change that philosophy (counter discourse). Foucault argues that power is knowledge, not based on how educated you are.
