Discipline and Punish (Penguin Social Sciences)

Name: Discipline and Punish (Penguin Social Sciences)
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ISBN: 9780140137224

ISBN-10: 014013722X

ISBN-13: 9780140137224

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michel Foucault

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In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that between school, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control…

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List price: $24.80
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 352
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.55" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.352