SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prison Reform, Industrial Revolution, Solitary Confinement
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Foucault on prisons origins: history of systems of thought, not really a historian, more interested on how ideas change and why does it change, why is prison an example of discipline and punishment. Sets out at the beginning, a symbolic form of punishment: torturing people in public displays, how has this system of thought changed, his starting question: how is that we think prison is a form of punishment. Sovereign display of punishment: the king is describing the pain on the body, technology of subtle, effective economic powers in. Cant punish everyone all the time and not in harsh ways. Cant do this for a huge population, have to be economic. It is a subtle way of getting the society to govern themselves, the most efficient way to go: disciplined al these years to know what a good person in society is like and how he/she should behave.
