SOC413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reputation System, Sousveillance, Social Control
24 Dec 2015
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Soc 413 week 2 surveillance and power. Review of don"t take it personally babe game. Incarceration building with tower in the middle and cells all around. Ie sovereign power: used to have people"s limbs tied to horses as punishment with lots of spectacle. High fear factor but low chance of it happening. Solution: separate them out individually and compare them to each other: start of imposing power onto people even though its, ie 1600"s how did they respond to plague? invisible. Broke the city down into a grid. Call people to the window to make sure they aren"t hiding something. Marking x"s on doors and windows of the plagued houses. Everything was under penalty of death very strict punishment. If you leave your house you"re going to get a plague so it made sure people stayed home. They didn"t have cops or police back then so this is. Worked because the plague was disgusting and rare deadly.
