SOCS2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Global Governance, Internet Governance, Collaborative Governance
29 May 2018
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SOCS2100
Organizational Management and Social Behavior
May 2, 2018
WEEK 8
Leadership and Office Politics
Problematics of steering, regulating, governing, and conducting in modern society
Governmentality
• Michel Foucault – art of government
• Describes overarching ideas embedded in structures of power
• How of governing
o calculated means of directing how we behave, act
o organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, techniques) which subjects
are governed
• The way governments try to produce the citizen best suited to fulfil government
policies
• Technique and strategies by which society is rendered governable
• Not limited to state politics alone
o Includes wide range of control techniques
o Applies to a wide variety of objects
o From ones control of the self to the control of the population
• Develops a new understanding of power
o Power not only in terms of hierarchical, top-down power of state
o Also includes social control in disciplinary institutions (schools, hospitals,
etc.)
▪ Institutional power over people
o Forms of knowledge
o Power can manifest itself by producing knowledge/discourses that get
internalized by individuals and guide behavior of populations
o Leads to more efficient forms of social control, as knowledge enables
individuals to govern themselves
• Applies to a variety of historical periods and to different specific power regimes
• Finds expression in various agents and organizations which keep control and
keep people in their place
• The ubiquity of structures controlling us makes us fearful of the possibility that
without the, there would be chaos
o Ex. Belief that cameras protect us but make us believe theres always a
threat to our safety
o One of most important things in society is to maintain status quo
Governance
• Theoretical concept
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