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  2. Discipline and Punish - Wikipedia

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    Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.

  3. Disciplinary institution - Wikipedia

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    Disciplinary institutions (French: institution disciplinaire) is a concept proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish (1975). School, prison, barracks, or the hospital are examples of historical disciplinary institutions, all created in their modern form in the 19th century with the Industrial Revolution.

  4. Michel Foucault - Wikipedia

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    Foucault mentions several characteristics of this judgement: (1) all deviations, even small ones, from correct behavior are punished, (2) repeated rule violations are punished extra, (3) exercises are used as a behavior correcting technique and punishment, (4) rewards are used together with punishment to establish a hierarchy of good and bad ...

  5. Carceral archipelago - Wikipedia

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    The "culture of spectacle" included public displays of torture, dismemberment, and obliteration of the human body as punishment. [17] Foucault opened Discipline and Punish with a detailed description of the execution of the French citizen, Robert-François Damiens in 1757 as punishment for regicide in a public display of drawing and quartering.

  6. Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France - Wikipedia

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    Scientific knowledge for Foucault isn't an advancement for human progress as is so often portrayed by the human sciences (such as the humanities and the social sciences) but is much more of a subtle method of organizing and producing firstly an individual subject, and secondly, a fully functional society functioning as a self-replicated control ...

  7. Category:Works by Michel Foucault - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Works by Michel Foucault" ... Discipline and Punish; H.

  8. Normalization (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of normalization can be found in the work of Michel Foucault, especially Discipline and Punish, in the context of his account of disciplinary power.As Foucault used the term, normalization involved the construction of an idealized norm of conduct – for example, the way a proper soldier ideally should stand, march, present arms, and so on, as defined in minute detail – and then ...

  9. Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs - Wikipedia

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    [3] [6] Michel Foucault adds the role of the government and its control systems. Finally, Norbert Elias suggests that overall changes in "civilizing sensibilities" have influenced how punishments are carried out. [3] [6] These theories can be helpful tools for understanding how punishment systems in the US have changed over time. Colvin also ...