SOCI 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fishing Net, Purple Prose, Nominalism
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Concerned with an historical analysis of the contemporary world: looking at how we arrived at present state of the world. Developed a framework for understanding how modern power operates through, and within, specific fields of knowledge: ** power-knowledge nexus. Not first theorist to think about idea, but first to give in-depth examination. In early modern era of western civilisation, we see the emergence of a new form of power that becomes the dominant form of power happens through use of new forms of knowledge. Focuses on how the techniques of this power-knowledge nexus are used in every part of society to maintain and regulate the population as a whole. Experience books looks at mundane details that have been left behind in everyday life. Techniques of discipline discipline & punish, docile bodies. Techniques of confession the history of sexuality i, identified sexualities. 3 parts; torture examines and develops about the way how power used to be wielded in terms of punishment.
