SWP 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eugenics, Tyrant, Whiteness Studies

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 335
• Professor: Henry Parada

Document Summary

The relation between social structures, institutions, groups, and the individual. Power is exercised by more powerful groups in an oppressive manner. It is possible for powerless groups to resist and gain power to advance their interests. Critique of st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)alis(cid:373)s defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s of so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:894)la(cid:374)guage, ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455), (cid:862)offi(cid:272)ial k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge(cid:863) Power can be exercised top-down or bottom-up (net structure) (cid:862)power must be analysed as something that circulates, or rather as something which only functions in the form of a (cid:272)hai(cid:374). It is (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) lo(cid:272)alised he(cid:396)e o(cid:396) the(cid:396)e, (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) i(cid:374) a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:271)od(cid:455)(cid:859)s ha(cid:374)ds, (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) app(cid:396)op(cid:396)iated as a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odit(cid:455) o(cid:396) pie(cid:272)e of wealth. Power is employed and exercised through a net-like organization. And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the position of simultaneously undergoing and exercising this powerindividuals are the (cid:448)ehi(cid:272)les of po(cid:449)e(cid:396), (cid:374)ot its poi(cid:374)ts of appli(cid:272)atio(cid:374). (cid:863) (foucault 1980)