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Structuring through power

Explore the theories of Bruno Bettelheim, Michel Foucault, and William Connolly on the effects and implications of power structures in shaping human behavior. Analyze the impact of external and internal disciplinary constraints, the moral career of inmates and staff, and the concept of the Panopticon. Consider alternatives and limitations of these theories in understanding and addressing power dynamics.

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Structuring through power

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  1. Structuring through power Bruno Bettelheim, 1903-1990 Michel Foucault, William Connolly

  2. Bruno Bettelheim

  3. What can the structuring of the environment do? • Bettelheim’s Three Theses • 1. the exercise of power can break down “normal” human relations • 2. Nazis had a purpose in being brutal • 3. the “Lutheran thesis”

  4. Symbolic Acts (from E. Goffman, Asylums) • 1. need to make sense • 2.desire to attach meaning

  5. “Moral Career” of the Inmate • Structure of camp • Total institution • Steps • Entry • Practices • Generally • Disruption of actor to acts • Disruption of relation to external world • Disruption of choice • Translation of meaning of actions

  6. ImplicationsConsequences • Implications • Consequences • Withdrawal • Intransigence • Colonization • Conversion • Bettelheim’s “solution”

  7. Moral Career of Staff • “The longer you look into an abyss, the more it looks back at you” • Attitude towards inmates • Technical necessity standards • Acceptance of institutional standards

  8. William Connolly (1938 --) and Michel Foucault • The above is extreme –how about closer to us • External Structures of disciplinary constraint • Egs • Do these work? • Can they be made internal also? • Looks at Michel Foucault

  9. Foucault

  10. Background and bio • History of Madness • Discipline and Punish • Criminility in Later Middle Ages • Public execution • Criminality more recently • Techniques of control • Observation • Normalizing judgment • Examination • Fields of documentation

  11. PANOPTICON; • OR • THE INSPECTION-HOUSE: • CONTAINING THE • IDEA OF A NEW PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION • APPLICABLE TO • ANY SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT, IN WHICH PERSONS OF • ANY DESCRIPTION ARE TO BE KEPT UNDER INSPECTION; • AND IN PARTICULAR TO • PENITENTIARY-HOUSES, • PRISONS, HOUSES OF INDUSTRY, WORK-HOUSES, POOR-HOUSES, LAZARETTOS, MANUFACTORIES, HOSPITALS, MAD-HOUSES, AND SCHOOLS: • WITH • A PLAN OF MANAGEMENT • ADAPTED TO THE PRINCIPLE: • IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, • WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1787, FROM CRECHEFF IN WHITE • RUSSIA. TO A FRIEND IN ENGLAND • BY JEREMY BENTHAM, • OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQUIRE.

  12. Are there alternatives? • 1. is this too bleak? • 2. reflexivity • Limits of ones own categories • Should we aim for a rational solution • 3. the fixed self and the enemy • 4. Connolly and “slack”

  13. Panopticon (Bentham)

  14. What can the structuring of environment do? • T

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