SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Fingerprint, Circular Reasoning, Bell Hooks
Document Summary
Rose says that the expert is one of two enduring solutions to the problem of who can rule and why they can rule. And rose says that democracy is a way to get around that but also that the expert is also one of the enduring solutions. It is the answer to the question of who can rule and why. Rose is trying to outline the progress from welfarism and neoliberalism. Trying to explain that welfarism is about the expert, we can program society. Expert knowledge legitimates rule in the same way that democracies legitimate rule. This is the starting point for the expert. Talks about suspect identities where he charts in depth aspects of fingerprinting. Talks about the colonial aspects of fingerprint. Criminology needs to be critiques with its starting point and its starting point was to identify particular groups.
