Social Control
Beginning of paper
Both Michel Foucault and Truffaut's depiction of a
disciplinary society are nearly identical. But Truffaut's
interpretation sees more room for freedom within the disciplinary
society. The difference stems from Foucault's belief that the social
control in disciplinary pervades all elements of li ....
Middle of paper
.... In his work Foucault exposes
how seemingly benign or even reformist institutions such as the modern
prison system (versus the stocks, and scaffolds) are technologies that
are typical of the modern, painless, friendly, and impersonal coercive
tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these technologies
stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These
prisons Foucault goes on to explain like many institutions in post
1700th century society i ....
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