SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ideal Type, Micro Power, Frankfurt School
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Foucault ii: amazon created a store with no lines or cashiers. This is an example of modern school system that organizes hierarchical relations between you and the instructors: makes a lot of references on military camps, schools, hospitals that embody disciplinary power. Family is not an exception: disciplinary power organizes relations between people normalizing, survielling and examining. It is not a triumphant power, which because of its own excess can pride itself on its omnipotence; it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy. These are humble modalities, minor procedures, as compared with the majestic rituals of sovereignty or the great. The fortress is about to be seen by others outside of the fortress so that the enemies will be intimidated and not invade. The sovereign power is to be seen by others by outside: gazed up by the subjects outside of the fortress.
