SMF101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Exogamy, Endogamy, Michel Foucault

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies
• Course: SMF101
• Professor: Jane Nicholas

Document Summary

Changes the narrative of how we think of modern institutions, before him we praised institutions, foucault asks us to think differently about this claim to progress through his study of the prison. Shift reflects wider system of change in society (modern way of reforming individual becomes an effective means; become more effective more efficient) All institutions web together into one style of modern control. Form society of normalization in which we hold social norms of conduct. Foucault"s 5 key strategies for the normalization of power. Three techniques of control: hierarchical observation, normalizing judgement, the examination. Outcomes of control: docile bodies, emergence of vital statistics, categorization of population. Knowledge/power slash = inseparable (institutions also place where knowledge is built, people study prisoners, students, patients) Power is everywhere because it comes from everywhere; is diffuse. Docile bodies easy to govern, economically useful, politically, obedient, and intelligible. Schedules, the fact that we all meet (part of disciplining bodies)