Foucault argues that other institutions operate like a barracks, even if the work of disciplining is not as obvious as it is for the soldier. In particular, he is trained and observed by his supervisors in the barracks. The soldier is a representative of discipline: he follows a strict schedule at a specified time and place. But he is interested in other institutions, too, like the factory or the school, and he will argue these function like prisons in a way as well.įoucault begins the first chapter of this part, “Docile Bodies,” by describing the routine of a soldier. He has already discussed the institution of the prison, and he will return to it again. He is particularly interested in how institutions are designed to carry out this work. In part 3, Foucault explores the mechanisms by which society disciplines its subjects, or people. Foucault calls this “discipline”: how people are disciplined into correct behavior. As a consequence, there was a movement from the king punishing criminals to society developing norms that prevented crime and reformed criminals. In particular, there was a movement from a more concentrated form of social power, residing in the king, to a more distributed or generalized form of power, residing in the people. In part 2, we saw that transformations in punishment were tied to transformations in social organization.
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