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Alienation, Experience, and Identity as Viewed by Erving Goffman and R.D. Laing

In nine pages this paper considers how these mental health theorists view schizophrenic issues such as alienation, experience, ide...

Asylums by Erving Goffman

In five pages this notorious text by the noted sociologist is examined with the emphasis being the book's last chapter. There is ...

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 ...

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 ...

'Eye of Power' by Michel Foucault

In seven pages Michel Foucault addresses knowledge and power and the relationship that exists between them in his essay entitled '...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

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...

Nature of Art and the Perceptions of Michel Foucault

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

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...

Foucault on the Vikings 'Sex Boat Scandal'

a gay rights movement today which accentuates homosexual activity. Yet, through history homosexuality has always been with society...

Society and the Individual

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

Perspectives of Ideology, Postmodernism, and Existentialism

the distinction between good and evil that is recognizable and notable. In order to understand the link between Nietzsches prem...

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...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Worldwide Prison System Ineffectiveness

it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....

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...

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 ...

Religion and Culture/Michel Foucault

This essay offers an overview of Religion and Culture by Michel Foucault, edited by Jeremy Carette. While the writer cites from Ca...

Panopticon Biopolitics Govenmentality

be visible but unverifiable. It was visible because the tall tower of the machine was ever-present but whether or not a prisoner i...

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

In three pages this paper focuses upon the latter portion of Foucault's revolutionary text in an analysis of its contents. There ...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Sociological Views on Sexual Harassment

resent the fact that they cannot date people they meet at work easily. In fact, some companies have rules against dating, and to m...

Conflict Theory and the Analysis of Contemporary Song Lyrics

In five pages this paper examines the 1994 'Machinehead' song by the British band Bush in a consideration of conflict theory and t...

Perspectives of Jurgen Habermas and Max Weber on Modernization and Rationalization

into play with modernization. These include urbanization, a move of the general populace from the country to the city, and bureau...