Panopticon

As soon as I put on the mask I lost my identity, and along with it, my comfort. Our group decided to intervene by having a masked figure stand out in a public space at night. The masked figure was handing out “Good Luck” cards to encourage people to do well on their final exams. We started with around ten cards, and after hours passed, we still had five. The masked man was being completely ignored even though he was trying to promote positive intentions. We filmed from hidden locations and…

the process of power and limit the effect of the ‘panoptic’ model. A distinct method to achieve this could be the elimination of authoritative and telling means whereby activity is made visible. (Roberts 2002) Foucault 's description of Bentham’s ‘panopticon’ demonstrated a visibility inwards, but not outwards of identification. This notion of outwards looking can, therefore, be assumed as a process of…

Technology is moving and is making its way into law enforcement. The problems departments are having is, how can we use technology to our advantage. One article I found titled “Surveillance in Society, The Eyes of Law Enforcement in the New Panopticon: Police-Community Racial Asymmetry and the Use of Surveillance Technology” discusses this topic. The article indicates that people in society when “central inspection or the notion that citizens’ behaviors can be better controlled when they are…

Snowden has been charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act and has stolen government property and can therefore be charged for up to 30 years in prison by the federal prosecutors in Virginia. He is on the run from the American authorities, and the White house spokesman, Jay Carney said, “he is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident” (Herzenhorn, 2013). The National Secret Administration also claims that their programs are constitutional and that their aim is to protect…

The study of the influence of society in individual’s health is not recent. To demonstrate the sociology utility, Durkheim (1897) examined the suicide rates in population and suggested that the strong social control among Catholics resulted in low rates of suicide. Nowadays, the data collected by Durkheim will not reflect the same reality. However, the mental health is likely to be related not only to genetics factor, but also to the social reality that the individual is inserted. The…

she was in. She explains how every girl looked at each other and they all whisper about how fat a girl was or how much competition they had. “The woman… who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, self committed to a relentless self-surveillance,” (Mears,…

In 1931, in Scottsboro Alabama, nine African-American boys with the ages from 12 to 20 were detained and wrongly accused of both rape and assault of two white women. A lynch mob of almost hundreds of white people assembled in the perimeters of the jail, causing the National Guard to interfere. Over the next decade, the Scottsboro Boys case as it became notorious of, was a nationwide icon of legal injustice in the segregated South, with no fair trial, consisted of an all-white jury that led to…