Sociology 3363F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rhetorical Device, Michel Foucault, Modus Operandi
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Security has become a dominant concept of modernity; the ruling idea. (much like risk) Powerful authorities (i. e. , bourgeoisie) seek to control the masses (i. e. , proletariat) through the notions of security to fuel our (in)security. Modern society is governed and organized in response to risk distributing observational. Linked to a process of modernity, we are not preoccupied with mitigating against risk instead of ensuring equitable distribution of resources (industrial society) Process of collecting, managing, monitoring and distributing observational information on the populous. Within sociology, the emergence of a field of surveillance studies the study of practices, techniques, and systems of the observation of people. Two definitions: as a practice and theory. Salter asks us to question the very imagination generated in the war on terror". Approaching terror not an essential thing instead as a political project. The war on terror is not actually a war.