SOCIOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Michel Foucault, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Biopower
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Foucault is both a postmodernist and a poststructuralist. Poststructuralism: marxism: economist activity, structural functionalism (parsons, foucault: linguistic structuralism lange: grammatical structure (deep features) parole: words (surface features)-actual stuff that comes out (ex: kinship (deep structure) and myths (surface forms) Foucault keeps the idea of language as a metaphor for society, but drops the strict analogy between deep structure and surface forms. Big talk, metatalk, abstract languge these have language-like features or patterns and can be observed in society (ex: panopticon: biopower: Another way of thinking about embodiment method of maintaining power through the spatial arrangement of human bodies (bourdieu) Bourdieu: embodiment of class through posture: genealogy. Prison is a form of power relations that is done with the minimal amount of violence. Doxa: silent consciousness/hegemony: brings social change by thinking about those things and institutions that are taken for granted. Critical race theory draws on doxa, hegemony, and micro theorists.
