SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prison Overcrowding, Asteroid Family, Panopticon
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What is his main argument: punishing ppl is not right, kingston penitentiary not working, showing the failures of the system to help us fix the system. Foucault did not talk about kingston penitentiary- lol he (cid:449)as(cid:374)(cid:859)t arou(cid:374)d duri(cid:374)g that time period. What theorists does he rely on: foucault, ignatia. How guards and wardens were expected to act. They strayed from the right path, and need to be brought bac. Prison is the answer to this problem, you can change people: schedule-disciplinary. Deviance/delinquent: morality, the idea that the state could help you, the church, the chaplain, teacher, the teacher and state operated in the place of the parent. Psychologists: the idea of eugenics- that u can make society better, u can cure its aliments. State-rows and steers: the state k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s (cid:271)est, through the help of psy(cid:272)hologists, a(cid:374)d they are goi(cid:374)g to help people the idea of doing things for people own good.
