SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Neoliberalism, Welfarism, Leviathan
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3 questions (sa 1-2 pages double spaced) Be able to name theorists (durkheim"s law) There is choice for sa between 2, the long answer as well todays lecture: The how questions: not why but how, take things that are taken for granted. Problematization: how did we decide that punishment=prison. De-centering the subject: defining racial profile. Interested in how its possible to advance an argument of racial profiling: problematize what is accepted. History of the present: how do we talk about problems, weed was thought of as deathly before and now its legal in some places. Genealogy: development of an idea, how did we get to the idea not what is the idea . Foucault is know for the understanding for power. Power is something that keeps people in place. Power is not something you possess or something you can monopolize. Power is only used when it is exercised.
