SOSC 2350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Michel Foucault, Consecration
24 Nov 2017
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Theoretical scheme involved a conception of the individual as largely socially determined being. Important commonality in a society was a form of conscience collective, a set of common beliefs and normative ideas which all members shared, individuals were only partly unique beings. Formed by social values and ideas they had internalized. Law reproduces the principle forms of social solidarity. Every precept of law can be de ned as a rule of sanctioned conduct, sanctions change with the gravity attributed to precepts, the role they play in society. Some sanctions consist essentially in suffering or a loss, in icted on the agent. They make demands on his fortune or life and liberty and its called repressive, constitute penal law. Those attached to rules which are moral have the same character, only they are distributed in a diffuse manner by everybody indiscriminately, those in penal law are applied through intermediary of a de nite organ they are organized.
