SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Louis Althusser, Structural Anthropology, Structural Analysis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Martin Hand

Document Summary

What is structuralism? ain to identify the basic structures that are universal, common to all societies. Identify patterns by looking at the patterns: associations are made with things and the words we use to describe them, the way you talk about something is how you classify it. Structuralism and ideology: louis althusser and structuralist marxism, argued that marx had a structural theory of social change. There can be no possible exercise of power without a certain economy of discourses of truth, which operates through and on the basis of this association. Basis of authority and power: 1 base: orchestrated by a central authority (king, 2nd base: orchestrated by decentralized institutions, reform schools prisons, schools, watch people, try to rehabilitate them, 3rd base: diffuse, multiple self regulation. [ ] the panoptic mechanism arranges spatial unities that make it possible to see constantly and recognize immediately(cid:495) (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:887): (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:524) (cid:494)visibility is a trap(cid:495) (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:887): (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:524: panoptic surveillance is (cid:494)permanent in its effects(cid:495)