Power Flashcards
Hegemony:
- process of moral and intellectual leadership through which dominated or subordinate classes consent to their own domination by ruling class
- as opposed to being simply forced or coerced into accepting inferior positions
Sovereign power:
- supreme ruler with ultimate power
- traditional understanding of power
- someone has power and they can use it to influence even force people
- whoever has this power is the sovereign (they can do whatever they want with it)
Power/knowledge (discursive power):
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Disciplinary (discursive power):
- internalization ensures compliance
- creates dolicity inits subjects
- no one holds it
Docility (discursive power):
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Hegemony explains how ____ works beyond just resorting to ____ ____.
- domination
- violent force
In hegemony, through _____, domination is achieved.
consent
____ of violent/serious consequences can be enough to ensure consent. No actual application of ____ needed.
- threat
- force
Hegemony was originally used to describe ___ ____.
class relations (eg. working class dominated by bourgeoisie class)
Consent to own oppression leads to …
Foucault’s thoughts on power
Describe how panopticon design illustrates disciplinary power:
- surveillance
- partitioning of space
- examination
- timetables
- nothing actually keeping them in but fear of consequence keeps them in
How is disciplinary power exercised?
in small, everyday behaviours by everyone
Discourses:
sets of interconnected texts that produce meaning
Discourse constructs the _____. It defines and produces the _____ of our _____.
- topic
- objects
- knowledge
Discourse governs the way that a topic can be meaningfully _____ about and ______ about.
- talked
- reasoned
