SOCY 306 Lecture 3: socy309Lec 3.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 306
• Professor: Scott Thompson

Document Summary

When it moves from just looking to surveillance are when rules are introduced. Technologies > visibility (social fact) > the social. Visibility things made seen > this social fact is limited by technology. Things made not seen > i. e. les mis the passport that marks jean as a criminal. This form of visibility that shapes and constrains him in the society he lives in as it labels him as a delinquent. Bureaucracy makes it so that people who are high in the structure can pass on instructions to people in the lower levels which will be followed. The rise of bureaucracy is a crucial point in history for the nation state according to dandeker. The top-down structure did not exist before this. This idea was first applied in the military and was reflected back into the entire society. Values of loyalty and following the rules applied to citizens.