Loïc Waccant’s contends Emile Durkheim's theory of the state being a conscious organization. Although rather dispelling Emile Durkheim’s point he thus argues that the state is both a coercive power and a consciously unified organization. Moreover he argues that the U.S. social state is withering away to the dramatic increase of its penal state. For example in his article Loic Waccant states “the hypertrophied penal state that is bit by bit replacing the rump social-welfare state at the bottom of the class structure or supplementing it to a gendered division”(40). Punishing the poor became a more decisive move for the government after straying away from liberal social policies, the poor were considered the socially polluted in society therefore
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I would not engage differently with social pollution in regards to Loic Waccant’s article because he perfectly articulates its cultural realism. Another term he engrossed is social norms, because the nuance of penal punishment towards the poor became an eminent rule that since the poor were socially under the ladder and encompassed traits of absolute poverty, societal norms dictated that a progression of the penal state can be taken. Therefore I would not interpret it differently since i share the same ideals as Loic Waccant. Lastly he engages with the term ethnocentrism because the government perpetrated a false notion that individuals of lower class society and in regards to race as to somehow carry out the same way of living as their white counterparts. This article compares to Franz Boas and his work on Cultural relativism. Judging solely on both Loic Waccant and Franz Boas’s work I would therefore insinuate that they would have to agree in terms of the dangers and how the government chooses to view the lower class. Understanding one's culture and realizing the effects of racial inequality leads to reasons as to why both anthropologists would have to agree on this certain topic. Both works can help expand the advancement of knowledge holistically in regards to individuals understanding cultural relativism and the effects ethnocentrism has cultural
I would not engage differently with social pollution in regards to Loic Waccant’s article because he perfectly articulates its cultural realism. Another term he engrossed is social norms, because the nuance of penal punishment towards the poor became an eminent rule that since the poor were socially under the ladder and encompassed traits of absolute poverty, societal norms dictated that a progression of the penal state can be taken. Therefore I would not interpret it differently since i share the same ideals as Loic Waccant. Lastly he engages with the term ethnocentrism because the government perpetrated a false notion that individuals of lower class society and in regards to race as to somehow carry out the same way of living as their white counterparts. This article compares to Franz Boas and his work on Cultural relativism. Judging solely on both Loic Waccant and Franz Boas’s work I would therefore insinuate that they would have to agree in terms of the dangers and how the government chooses to view the lower class. Understanding one's culture and realizing the effects of racial inequality leads to reasons as to why both anthropologists would have to agree on this certain topic. Both works can help expand the advancement of knowledge holistically in regards to individuals understanding cultural relativism and the effects ethnocentrism has cultural