Michel Foucault

Technology influences the accounting profession. Michel Foucault expresses that “power is everywhere” in his essay (Foucault 1). Power is a strong source, which is why it related to accounting. Power helps produce accounting concepts and with this power the accounting industry is able to evolve with the help of technology. When thinking…

demise” (Bak 40). He bases his interpretation of the text around the comparison of the narrator’s confinement in her room to being in a ‘Panopticon’ – a concept previously patterned by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century and later discussed by Michel Foucault. The Panopticon is in essence a prison, where one is always aware of being constantly watched and this creates a deeply rooted paranoia. The narrator’s room indeed resembles a Panopticon; there are bars on the windows, rings in the walls to…

Exploring identity creation through Instagram Introduction The definition of the word Instagram is derived from two key aspects: 1) ‘Insta’ comes from instant camera, a type of vintage camera that self-develops its film. 2) ‘gram’ is a shortened version of ‘telegram’, (Collins Dictionary, n.d.) which means a message sent via electricity or radio and is printed on before it gets posted to a home or office. (Instagram.com) From the combined meanings, Instagram is then launched on June 6, 2010…

Drawing on 2 key assumptions relating to the nature of knowledge and power by Michel Foucault (1972) and Orientalism by Edwards Said (1978), Attwood (1992) coined the term Aboriginalism which refers to a discourse - a formal discussion, a way to know about the Aboriginal people and culture. Within this discourse, there are 3 independent…

Jeffrey Green’s book, The Eyes of the People, is an interesting and unique break from traditional democratic theory. It appeals to the ideal of plebiscitary democracy and acknowledges the reality of everyday citizens’ participation, or lack thereof. Green boldly steps away from the traditional Athenian concept of democracy on a mass scale that dominates modern democratic theory. He calls to attention the challenges of said model of democracy and gives the reality of modern citizenship. In doing…

Our society has been created and structured with social inequalities of many kinds. The act of discrimination is one particular type where it is prominent in today’s modern society and historical times. Most individuals may not acknowledge the possibility that this type of act can occur everywhere and even in unexpected places such as at a workplace. Hence, the idea of employment discrimination is still very unfamiliar to people as most people tend to think about discrimination in terms of…

Charles Camp and Timothy Lloyd explain in their 1980 paper “Six Reasons to Not Produce Folklife Festivals” that they want “to encourage folklorists...to think more deeply and more critically about festivals” (67). The goal of the majority of folklife festivals is to promote greater awareness among the general population about several cultures’ traditional practices, beliefs, and material items which in turn provides that culture with validation for those beliefs and practices. The festivals’…

Post-colonial theory has been shaped by the works of critics such as Fanon, Said, and Bhabha, who based their theories on the works of Derrida, Lacan and Foucault. In his mainly “psychoanalytical interpretation” of the black/white binary, Fanon establishes certain mandates or a set of axioms such as “the black man wants to be white”, “the white man slaves to reach a human level”, “the white man is sealed in his whiteness”, “the black man in his blackness”; he also establishes two facts: “white…

Introduction Crime is a highly complex phenomenon that changes across both time and cultures. Activities that are legal in one country may be illegal in another country. As cultures change over time, behaviours that were once criminalised may not be criminalised anymore. Most people consider crime as deviant behaviour however not all crimes are deviant and not all deviant behaviour is criminal. Crime is the behaviour that breaks the formal laws of a given society. The punishment of crime will be…

Have you ever felt like you are being fascist? I think you have felt this feeling at least once in your life. If you are saying that you have never been a fascist, you cannot consider me as a fascist person, you cannot even use my name with fascism… You are probably lying. If you are still thinking that you have no connection with fascism, then I can give an example that most of the Robert College students are faced with. Are you ready to read my example? You should be ready unless you are…