SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Harm Principle, Banksy, Jeremy Bentham

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2350
• Professor: Amelie Barras

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Foucault(cid:495)s disciplines: power is diffuse, juridical power vs. discipling power, disciplinary power vs. normalization. A writer, went to a prestige school. Has had huge impact on areas such as sociology, criminology, police studies, cultural studies, literary studies, historiography, marxism, sexuality studies, and many more areas. For example, sexuality does not exist except as part of discursive formation. Man is the power of socialization and produced to discourse. Sexuality, gender doesn(cid:495)t just exist they exist through language, ritual, institutions and relationships etc. Discourse & rules and strategies for the formation of subject-positions and knowledge. (e. g. Medicine: genealogy of power/knowledge, examines a variety of institutions to show how power/knowledge is pervasive (e. g. prison, sexuality, major target: psychiatry, biology, medicine, school, criminology, his focus was on. (cid:498)power is neither given nor exchanged, but rather exercised, and that it only exists in action power is not primarily the maintenance and reproduction of economic relations, but is above all a relation of force(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:890)(cid:891)(cid:524)