Survaillence

Question 1

What is the definition of Surveillance ?

Answer 1

The monitoring of public behaviour for the purposes of population or crime control

Question 2

What are the 2 types of punishment does Foucault recognise ?

Answer 2

Sovereign power- Monarch had absolute power over the people

Disciplinary power- Institutions are controlling people by their use of surveillance

Question 3

What is an example of Disciplinary power ?

Answer 3

Panoptic prisons that induce a form of self surveillance

Question 4

What does Foucault say about the ‘dispersal of discipline’ ?

Answer 4

Prison is one institutions that, increasingly began to subject people to disciplinary power to induce conformity through self-surveillance

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Question 5

What are some criticisms of Foucault ?

Answer 5

Shift from sovereign power to disciplinary power is less clear than he suggests ​

Wrongly assumes that the expressive aspects of punishment disappear in modern society ​

Question 6

What does Matheison say about surveillance ?

Answer 6

He describes ‘synopticon’ wherein everyone watched everyone

Question 7

What does Thompson (2000) argue ?

Answer 7

Politician’s fear the media’s surveillance of them may uncover damaging info about them, and this acts as a form of social control over their activities

Question 8

What are surveillant assemblages ?

Answer 8

Feeley & Simon describe it as surveillance that seeks to predict and prevent future offending

Question 9

What is social sorting ?

Answer 9

Lyon describes it as certain social groups go under surveillance due to their risk of danger to society

Question 10

How does labelling link to surveillance ?

Answer 10

Self-fulfilling prophecy and discrimination can be a cause of surveillance especially if certain social groups are targeted