SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Historical Method, Panopticon, Post-Structuralism
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The pattern of knowledge changes over time via discursive shifts he calls. These are the habits of logic that make possible specific understandings. In challenging these reigning perspectives, foucault adopted these 2 distinct. The framework of knowledge (such as religion or science) It that shapes discourse, that collection of linguistic tools, rules, descriptions. Poststructuralism is so named because of its coming after structuralism and expresses doubt on meaning universality of structuralism. Archeology and genealogy methodologies much like the artifacts of past civilizations. Knowledge is never separate from power but it is instead a specific means for exercising power. Power appears in its most potent form when successfully translated into systems of knowledge status of knowledge. Foucault presents this phase of punishment (3rd) as marked by a noted decline in the ferocity and publicity of penal force accompanied by the rise of humanistic concerns surrounding the implementation of punishment surveillance and discipline.
