SOC301 Midterm: Midterm 1 review

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Disciplinary power: disciplinary power is a productive power that originates a way of controlling the movement and functions of ones body. It s a type of power that coerces the body by dividing up ones movement and space. Power is decentralized into institutions such as hospitals, prisons and educational institutions to rely on human knowledge. Institutions then execute these forms of punishment in order to rehabilitate the individual, and reduce the gaps in the norm of society. Punishment than becomes organized through the surveillance of the human or individual. A quite famous example of disciplinary power is a beer company airing a commercial for advertising purposes. The beer company advertises their beverage as much as possible, targeting place and events that will adhere to the consumer such as hockey games, baseball games. The purpose of this is to get the consumer to favor their product and essentially buy it.

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