Rose - Experts of the Soul

Question 1

What is the Main Point of This Article? (Rose)

Answer 1

The phenomenon of psychology becoming indispensable to modern life in societies can be understood in terms of expertise

Question 2

How do we think today? (Rose)

Answer 2

In psychological terms
- psychology has infused itself with social actors

Question 3

How has it generated new ways of constructed existence as problematic (Rose)

Answer 3

• Normality is rendered as the fragile outcome of the successful avoidance of a risk
• Expertise offers chance of certainty

Question 4

3 Broad themes that are important in examining expertise and government (Rose)

Answer 4

• Rationality
• Privacy
• Autonomy

Question 5

Rationality examination of experitise (Rose)

Answer 5

exercise of power over citizens becomes legitimate to the extent that it claims a rational basis

Question 6

Privacy examination of expertise (Rose)

Answer 6

problematics of government depend upon the creation of ‘private’ spaces, outside the formal scope of the authority of pubic powers

Question 7

Autonomy examination of expertise (Rose)

Answer 7

problematics of government are autotomizing, they seek to govern through constructing a kind of regulated autonomy for social actors