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Social Control and the Concepts of Michel Foucault

seems to be the primary tool, at least figuratively. It is used in the well known Panopticon paradigm as well. The Panopticon is ...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Feminism and Michel Foucault

In ten pages this paper discusses how Michel Foucault is largely responsible for postmodern and poststructural concepts of women w...

'Newness' Concept of Salman Rushdie Applied to Foucault and Winterson

In five pages this report applies Rushdie's newness concept to gender stereotypes with an examination of Michel Foucault's The His...

Panopticon Model and Public Schools' Essay by John Devine

proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham but what distinguished this structure had been an architectur...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

Foucault and Orwell

atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

Michael Foucault vs. Frantz Fanon on Minorities

French writers Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon are seminal philosophers in the empowerment of minority populations. This research...

Michel Foucault on Knowledge, Power, and Video Art

In six pages this paper examines how human interaction study can apply Michel Foucault's philosophies of knowledge and power as il...

Knowledge and Sexuality According to German and French Critical Theory

In twelve pages Michel Foucault's philosophies are featured in a discussion of critical theory pertaining to the French and German...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the Theories of Michel Foucault

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

Totalizing Theories Replaced by Postmodern Theories

that the world is undergoing a period of economic globalization and political fragmentation. If one accepts that as truth, one c...

Short Eyes by Miguel Pinero

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts featured in Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ...

Society and the Individual

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

A Contemporary Feminist Critiquing of the Liberal Tradition

for the legitimacy of modern civil government is to be found by treating our society as if it had originated in a contract. The a...

Knowledge as a Construct of Society

In seven pages this research paper applies the philosophies of Karl Popper, Emile Durkheim, and Michel Foucault to an examination ...

Society and Sexual Repression According to Foucault

In five pages this paper examines sexuality and the repression that is caused by sexual obsession according to social theorist Mic...

Calvinism Genesis of Capitalism

The entitled topic represents one part of this paper, which discusses four philosophers. Weber proved his point that Calvinism pla...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

Contemporary Organization and Michel Foucault's Enhanced Panopticon Model

II. The Panopticon The Panopticon is an interesting model that had been created to foster the ideal setting for prison life. It ...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

with a rational sense of understanding crime and punishment this does not appear to be punishment as much as it appears to be an a...

Structuralism v. Humanism

to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, a...

Children and the Impact of the Press

and social degradation which is consuming certain segments of our society could be considered to in some ways actually escalate th...

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

Pornography, Cosmetic Surgery and Sexual Ethics

This research paper analyzes the manner in which sexual ethics can be applied to issues pertaining to pornography and cosmetic sur...

Sexuality and Power

In five pages this paper considers the interpretation of power and sexuality by examining the theories of Michel Foucault and Cath...