SMF205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Michel Foucault, Norm (Social)

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Smf 101 monday, september 12, 2016 week 2a. History of systems of thought 1970. Died in 1984 published in 1977. Influences social sciences lots of readings relate back to foucault"s idea. Modern disciplinary society, how techniques of power were hard to see but always there. Before foucault seen the area of being a time of progress (1800s) Development of the specialized institutions - hospital for sick, prison, insane asylum have places to help the prisoner, help the sick. Foucault wants to know why we hang on the idea of being normal and staying the normal institutions teach us how to be normal. Rather than progress foucault seen this as how do you control a society helps have same social norm. The idea of social control is not to punish less but to punish better we need more efficiently. He wanted a society of normalization and to uphold what normal is what bodies do, how they do it.

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