SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Knowledge Engineering, Reflexive Modernization, Risk Society
Document Summary
We don"t know what the end of governmentality is. Governing beyond state state is limiting way to explain how we are governed (rose) cold monster/big brother metaphor restricting: miss other instances when we think of state as governing us. Disneyland- relation between governance and amusement parks: not just the state in conducting our conduct, embedded and consensual governing (aspects of control embedded) Diverse sites (library to disneyland to the state) i. e. take out a book- metal detectors. Yet shifts in underlying logic crime prevention takes on new role. How we go from liberalism, to welfarism (safety net; state could solve social problems) to advanced liberalism: chart shifts in governmentality. Welfarism symbolizes death of the social**- social as a way of governing conduct. No ultimate goals in governmentality social behaviour reconceived in economic terms: along lines of choice. Entrepreneur- enterprising of the self comes to the forefront; continual process to reinvent yourself.