LWSO 313 Study Guide - Final Guide: Governmentality, Problematization, Michel Foucault

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSO 313
• Professor: Kirsten Kramar

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Question: sokhi-bulley (2013; 2014) and mats alvesson and j rgen sandberg (2011) argue that both governmentality" and problematization" can be understood as an alternative methodology. Explain how these concepts, understood in methodological terms, can help us to generate specific types of research questions. The reason that methodology is so essential is that it influences the hypothesis, research questions and sources used in a project. Also, of whom or what is being governed, what governing is, whom or what can govern, and so on. This word government must be allowed the very broad meaning it had in the sixteenth century. Government did not refer only to political structures; rather, it designated the way in which the conduct of individuals or of groups might be directed. For example, the government of children, of souls, of communities, of the sick. To govern, in this sense, is to control the possible field of action of others (sokhi-bulley, 2013).