Discipline and Punish

In Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault, the author shows how over time punishment has changed. Specifically, he notes that punishment has moved away from targeting the body, and instead, now focuses on the soul. This change led to the idea that it was not only important to determine who committed the crime, but also why, as it would give greater insight into the problem, and offer better solutions. As such, I argue that if you follow Foucault’s analysis of how and why punishment changed it…

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault explains how disciplinary power is used to produce subjects who internalize power and as a result, regulate themselves as their own jailors. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model is brought up as a prime example of a form of technological power used in the mid- 19th Century to generate this disciplinary power. The model uses a tower which is placed at the center of a circular prison building. From this tower, the wardens and guards are able to view any prisoner at…

sociology of knowledge can also be found in Michel Foucault’s works. In his writings - Madness and Civilization (1961) posits that origin of madness and what was considered as "reason" or "knowledge" was a subject to major culture bias. In Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, Foucault focuses on the relationship between knowledge and power. According to Foucault, knowledge…

122). As Wijitbusaba (2005) has elucidated, although gender neutrality needs to be further explored in Foucault’s work, the work of Foucault in the Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976) has offered feminists a view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism, that creates a ground for a positive area of resistance for divergent…

society as success nowadays. Success is a triumph or an accomplishment of an aim. To reach the level of success many factors have to be played such as self discipline. Self discipline is a key ingredient for our students to reach the path of success. Therefore, during the early stages of childhood children should be educated about self discipline, as a result once armed it would be a tremendous asset in high school and the future. If gained children will be able to have the ability to control…

them later on in their life. Having good character traits, turn into having good habits, and those habits help the students succeed in school. To be successful as a student having the character traits like optimism, having a good attitude, and self discipline are important. Optimistic students are most…

Classroom management is crucial for every teacher to have in a successful learning environment. I believe that students need to be controlled and disciplined; students at this age need to be guided in the right path. They are capable of self-discipline but need to be shown what the rules of the classroom are and what is the expectation of the teacher. I believe that students are basically good but that the environment around them influences them tremendously. If they maintain busy with…

Junayd is an 8-year-old third-grade student in the Paumanok Elementary School. Junayd has a current special education classification of Autism. He is educated within a Special class placement with mainstreamed for math and science classes. In addition, Junayd receives Speech (3x/week) and Occupational Therapy (1x/week). As per his IEP, Junayd’s testing accommodations include extended time (1.5), revised test directions, flexible settings and directions repeated. Junayd currently resides with…

Benjamin Franklin believed that every person can become more wealthy, healthy, and wise through hard work and self discipline. I believe in his belief because it doesn’t matter how difficult or easy it is to accomplish a goal; at the end of the day, what counts is the satisfaction of the work and experience a person puts into it. Franklin didn’t favor luck or opportunities, but instead became successful through hard work. Franklin was many things such as an author, inventor, scientist, and a…

Silence and solitude are two of the most overlooked spiritual disciplines, but they are two of the most beneficial disciplines in a Christian’s life. Donald S. Whitney defines these two practices in his book “Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life” as follow: “The Discipline of silence is the voluntary and temporary abstention from speaking so that a certain spiritual goals might be sought,” and “Solitude is the spiritual discipline of voluntarily and temporarily withdrawing to privacy for…