SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Michel Foucault, Cultural Artifact, Post-Structuralism

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Has had huge impact on areas such as sociology, criminology, police studies, cultural studies, literary studies, historiography, marxism, gay & lesbian. (e. g. sexuality does not exist except as part of discursive formation. Post-structuralism: characterized by the denial of the human-being as the privileged object of philosophical analysis, focusing instead on the social, linguistic, and unconscious determinants of thought. It operates through the internalization of specific norms. Juridical power: power related to the law or to the administration of justice. The human being is not the eternal basis of human history and human culture but a historical and cultural artifact. Major target: psychiatry, biology, medicine, school, criminology: archaeology of knowledge. Discourse & rules and strategies for the formation of subject- positions and knowledge (ex. Examines a variety of institutions and non- discursive practices to show how power/knowledge is pervasive (e. g. prison, sexuality)

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