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Power And Resistance: Self - Presentation Of Circle Community

Posted on:2016-12-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330461467771Subject:Sociology
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Prison community has the simplified social structure. But it still shows a complex social activity. For a long time, the areas of prison community are limited to external research discourse. The own operations and internal discourse are rarely explored. Sociologists around the study of power management system.It makes a new perspective to describe the phenomenon of prison. The problem of sociology currently facing is how to make sociology into the "walls" and to realize the unify of social imagination and prison reality.Study of the prison society is a historical mission. Prison is important to understand the society. Researchers of Western classicism, with Bentham’s who represented utilitarianism, focus on the design and monitoring of the prison building to achieve the power. And Foucault’s panopticon explored the disciplinary system through three different stages:medieval era torture, humanitarian reform era and the era of modem disciplinary power. He found that it was more effective to enforce discipline in the system. Actually, the power in punish has embedded to the society itself. With the development of the capitalist economy, the punishment of offenders became more widespread. The punishment body has also changed:from the physical to the spiritual transformation. The power economics emerged.As the object of a field survey,the prison is the immense difficulties. With the aid of Foucault’s theoretical framework of power / knowledge system, I try to use the Goffman’s Dramaturgical Theory presentation which can describe the struggle and resistance between prison guards and prisoners in the prison. With the practice opportunity,the author went to the coastal prison community for the sample. An in-depth analysis select some typical individuals to make sure the investigation diversity and comprehensiveness by interview, literature review method, data statistics. In the areas of the Chinese modern prisonas, the research subject is constantly changing: guards change the single career mode to multiple structure that a variety of professional backgrounds influence each other. The types of criminals crime, the change of criminal policy, social and psychological complexity are also becoming more and more complicated. Therefore, the modern prison has discipline by watching and self imprisonment. Grounded signs self-evident punishment in criminal formation inside Report words reflects the power of standardization from the language. Punishment of dangerous criminals present most mandatory power significantly. The social attribute of criminals is guarded by performances. To this end,we also need to design a prevention mechanism to prevent the occurrence ofresistance.Where there are places of power there is resistance. The survey found that criminals are keen on carefully design to resist the powerperformance.there are three ways. First of all, with "give the expression" and "revealed the expression", they control the guards’methods to deal with. It can make the formation of the definition of the situation.The scend is to use information aggregation mechanism to adapt to the prison, even against the discipline. The third is the expression form of mania, depression, hysteria, idioctonia etc. All the madness of phase are taken to manufacture the possibility of escape punishment. The fourth is to activate the criminals internally generated power and community groupsof prison discipline power match. Of course, what also observed power against criminals are emotional changes in the process and positive social attributes.However, There is no doubt that its effects on the modern state and political practice. These effects are not consistent performance of the political system of the modern state in the political system constructed by the extent to which the social contract theory. But it is reflected in the judgment of the social contract theory of human nature, the understanding of the value of freedom, as well as personal in what sense, the relationship with the argument from a theoretical concept to become a political practice guidelines. The prison community is also permeating social contract spirit. Here the answer is the theme of our times " Why the relative individual liberty to obey the national power". The prison community power happens everywhere. How to protect the criminals relative freedom and how to prevent power sprawl is necessary to consider.
Keywords/Search Tags:prison community, Foucault, power discipline, resistance, social contract theory
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