I like this paragraph I tend to
do the same things every day which I hate. I wake on the TV then play my
PlayStation go make some food watch more TV play PlayStation again and go a
bed. And do the same thing the next day’ so when something else happens that
changes the cycle for example go out with my mates
At the end
of the day cctv is a good thing its just the people who are watching us that we
get concerned.
Panopticon
In 1785, English philosopher jeremay bentham proposed a
design for a prison called the panopticon. The prison had a central point from
which prison wardewrs were able to watch all the prisoners simultaneously,
whilst themselves remaining unobserved.
Two key advantages to this design, Benthan claimed. Firstly,
as prisoners would now know whether they were being watched or not, warders
would not of been on duty all the time so reducing cost and secondly not
knowing if they were being watched all the time the prisoners would have better
behaviour.
Its wasn’t just built for confinement and punishment but a
design for the inmates morals.
under observation. We often
discipline and begin self policing.
·
For Foucault, it has become a metaphor for
modern “disciplinary” societies and their pervasive inclination to observe and
normalise. Foucault proposes that not only prisons but all hierarchical
structures like the army, the school, the hospital and the factory have evolved
you are a history to resemble Bentham’s Panopticon. Are you According to Foucault,
at all levels ofm you odern life, through all our institutions, and you working
and domestic life, a web of power is woven around us, scrutinising us, tracking
us, and norms and rules of acceptable behaviour upon us. We feel that we are being watched and
monitored, even when we are not, like the prisoners in Bentham’s panopticon.
That fear allows very few people to control us. You are you are are
you
Well yeah that’s really true Foucault in the Army, the
school, hospital, factories that they have evolved around Beantham’s panopticon. All levels of modern life, and you
work daemonic life. A weather arouses tracking is all rules of acceptable
behaviour, but with that we are felt that we are being watched even that we
aren’t, it’s still a possibility that we are.
§
There was of course no way of knowing whether
you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the
Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even
conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they
could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live,
from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made
was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being
watched at any given moment. Today there is of course no way of knowing you are
being watched still you can look at a CCTV camera but you don’t know if it’s
looking at you. CCTV is like the web of Power look at that everybody not just
you. There is a mean of the control.
It says it was conceivable that they were being watched
every time, the only way that we could be watched every time in today’s world
was by a computer and even then it had to be seen by humans Sees humans think
that everybody all the time it’s kind of faults in my eyes.
Karl Marx
Suggested that ideologies arise in class-divided societies
for the express purpose of political domination
suggested that I do largely arises in class what kind of
class the rich the working man in the poorer smart people are stupid people
religious people and nonreligious people.
§
“the class that has the means of material
production at its disposal consequently also controls the means of mental
production” – the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the
same time its ruling intellectual force
So the smart people of ruling intellectual force which is
kind of true, if you are smart that will be able to gain power and money which
means the best ideology class, is the class that has the means of material
production.
§
“the ideas of the ruling class are in every
epoch the ruling ideas” – thinkers are producers of ideas that the ruling
classes use to regulate society
the ruling class would be the government fought they tell is
that you can do this so what’s right and wrong, and we use this to help in regular
society.
§
within the ruling class, there is a division of labor which ensures that some assume mental tasks while others take on
material tasks: some think, while others execute the ideas.
yes this is true again people have physical jobs and others
have mental jobs, for work you need both
but some are better than others. You
need scientists that you need it bin men as well.
Karl Marx says
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Ideology is a false consciousness that swaddles people
against deep critical reflection Marx
argued that some illusions were dressed up to sound like claims about the state
of nature, e.g. “some people are slaves by nature”; “God made woman to serve
man” Importantly for Marx, the existence
of ideologies presupposes the existence of a class behind the ideologies A powerful class legitimates position via ideology
People aren't slaves by nature and God made woman to serve
man is faults. Man said that God made women to serve man. Yes a powerful class
legitimates position via ideology.
In my eyes it’s a lot more believable that man told other
men, that we could get women to do basically their bidding by saying God made
them to do this and do that for them.
Legitimacy
· Ideology
legitimates power; legitimacy is almost always concerned with a claim to a bona
fide membership in a class – , art, forms of government…they seem to come by
that status naturally – rendering them proper, bona fide, and worthy of respect.
You don’t get rid of legitimate
powers
first thing was power. The ability to influence outcomes and
active goals, to have control over things and people. To have the power to get
things done the power to make the hard decisions. It can be won over giving its
shore power is the ability to influence the wall around you.
Legitimacy- is doing something according to law. The law
being a code of conduct accepted and decided by unanimous majority or
authority. It’s a sticky concept.
Legitimate power-is the authority that the leader exercises
by default, due to his position in an organisation. A leader is essentially
distinguished from a follower, due to the greater rights and responsibilities
he or she has, compared to others. The additional rights that power bestows on
him or herdistinguishes him from followers.
Of course in a large organisation, there is a power
structure and everyone really leader you some higher authority to answer to.
Legitimate power can be a relevant concept due to the very nature of power. It.
One who takes it. A leader may experience more power than his limits for
example they could be accepting additional responsibility from their seniors
from the people. Also, a leader may exercise power limit of legitimate
boundaries by dividing the jobs to get them people under his or her command.
Also Sometimes in situations where people forget what their
legitimate powers are on the abuse it. Maybe they get greedy with power may be
the just not very nice people entirely some use the power of a how to control
the people who have are a post to lead. To
some of legitimate power is the set of rights which a leader inherits as a was
sort of his or her position in a power structure.
Used term of ideology less pejoratively than Marx. Claimed
it represented a system of interest, articulation, and reproduction involving
key institutions in society such as churches, schools, mass media.
Legitimacy
· Ideology
legitimates power; legitimacy is almost always concerned with a claim to a bona
fide membership in a class – , art, forms of government…they seem to come by
that status naturally – rendering them proper, bona fide, and worthy of respect.
You don’t get rid of legitimate
powers
first thing was power. The ability to influence outcomes and
active goals, to have control over things and people. To have the power to get
things done the power to make the hard decisions. It can be won over giving its
shore power is the ability to influence the wall around you.
Legitimacy- is doing something according to law. The law
being a code of conduct accepted and decided by unanimous majority or
authority. It’s a sticky concept.
Legitimate power-is the authority that the leader exercises
by default, due to his position in an organisation. A leader is essentially
distinguished from a follower, due to the greater rights and responsibilities
he or she has, compared to others. The additional rights that power bestows on
him or herdistinguishes him from followers.
Of course in a large organisation, there is a power
structure and everyone really leader you some higher authority to answer to.
Legitimate power can be a relevant concept due to the very nature of power. It.
One who takes it. A leader may experience more power than his limits for
example they could be accepting additional responsibility from their seniors
from the people. Also, a leader may exercise power limit of legitimate
boundaries by dividing the jobs to get them people under his or her command.
Also Sometimes in situations where people forget what their
legitimate powers are on the abuse it. Maybe they get greedy with power may be
the just not very nice people entirely some use the power of a how to control
the people who have are a post to lead. To
some of legitimate power is the set of rights which a leader inherits as a was
sort of his or her position in a power structure.
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Gramsci 1894 1937 Used term of ideology less
pejoratively than Marx. Claimed it represented a system of interest,
articulation, and reproduction involving key institutions in society such as
churches, schools, mass media
Reproduction involving key institutions is interesting churches
says u can only have sex after marriage whiles schools teach you that u can only
have sex at a sustain age and you can have the option to wait till you are
ready. These societies don’t really clash until they confront each other.
Hegemony
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While ideology emanates from the ruling classes,
it becomes hegemonic when it takes on the character of common-sense use and the
understanding of the masses in society. It’s this status that makes it possible
for others in society to see their interests represented. by the ideology and
to become part of the process of reproducing it. This characteristic explains
sacrifices by subordinate classes in nationalistic struggles and imperialist
ventures
What is hegemony. Is a
big word for a fairly simple idea. One powerful people use their influence to
convince less powerful people in the best interests. I saw this piece about Nathan palmer, Nathan palmer
discuss how hegemony is used to get his daughter to bed and to justify the growing
economic inequality in the United State.
Hegemony is the act of convincing another that it is in
their best interest to do what you want them to do.
As a guy called Tom Sawyer famously convinced his friends
that painting a fence was so much fun begging him to let them do Sawyer’s work
for him.
Understanding the masses in society and ruling classes, so
hegemony is the act to convince another that it is in their best interest to do
what they want to them to do, and a example of this is war.
If we go to war hegemony would be the best way to go about
it, so the ruling classes use hegemony to convince the masses in society to go
to war. Society would be the country and the people. What would the higher
classes used to hegemony the less class a good example is George Bush he wanted
to invade Iraq for oil and use the good
and bad idea if we don’t stop them( terrorist). They will attack again worse
the 911 and the fact they said they had weapons of mass destruction.
Also fake preachers that’s sell god to get them money by convincing
them they will public that’s the only way they will be saved.
Common sense is “the way a subordinate class lives its subordination.
Common sense to do what you are told in a subordinate class
if to a higher stronger class.
Gramsci and
hegemony
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Coercion and consent…hegemony is a relation, not
of domination by means of force, but of consent by means of political and
ideological leadership. It is the organisation of consent. Gramsci saw hegemony
as a concept both in gaining state power and in maintaining that power once it
has been achieved. “A hegemonic class, or part of a class, is one which gains
the consent of other classes and social forces through creating and maintaining
a system of alliances by means of political and ideological struggle.” Notion
of building up alliances is central to concept of hegemony.
I have
said about Gramsci, schools, churches, and media about reproduction. The church
uses hegemony. The church says if you do that this will have to make to stop
you doing it. What you are doing is a sin, and god will punish you.
Also talking about consent back
then you needed the churches consent to marry one another. Otherwise you couldn’t.
Many rick countries America for
example use these wealth and power coercion poorer weaker smaller countries
giving aid and money so hopefully they will be pro-American and also
withdrawing aid and money to countries that don’t share their thoughts and ideology.
Althusser
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DOMINANT IDEOLOGY: Althusser each society has a
dominant ideology shared by a majority of people * dominant in numerical terms
* dominant in the sense that it tends to support the interests of the dominant,
ruling groups
Dominant ideology socirty
has a dominant ideology shared majority of people the people who have power and
that are happy so like the people in Britain.
The ruling groups of Britain would be the rich.
Meaning of the service of power
·
Repressive State apparatuses: government, hv,
army, police, , prisons, etc. “Repressive” suggests SAs “function by violence”
– at least ultimately Althusser calls church, schools, family, belief in the power
of law, belief in political systems, tradeunionism, etc, Ideological State
Apparatuses – ISAs RSAs belong to the
public domain; ISAs to the private domain. RSAs function predominantly by
repression and secondarily by ideology; ISAs function primarily by ideology and
secondarily by repression, even if concealed or even symbolic “No class can
hold State power over a long period without at the same time exercising its hegemony
over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses
The people who go to school, church are the good people who believe
and abide the law who trust the system. And will follow the rules set by their government.
Trust in the police, army and prisons as long as they do their service and does their job to keep the people happy. Classes will exercise
Hegemony over a long period of time may happen but like I said
if it doesn't affect the people.
My Summary of ideology
Control, power, beliefs
and opinions are the things you grow you which mold you to become who you are.
It’s your own choice
to make, yes when you are a child they can be forces upon you but when you start
growing up you may change, you beliefs or opinions/ options in life which verse
from your beliefs.
In my eyes you can
do what every you want as long as it’s good which is what iv been grown you to
believe, but in some religions that thought is wrong example Muslims women can’t,
they have to work for men. There are many ideology some may be right and some may
be wrong. Everyone has different opinions there for you can’t label the right
one if so you would have to forces it upon them and that is wrong all together.
Everyone has to
follow a law it may be different in other countries it could be a wrong thing
to what you think but you can’t stop it just have to live with it. That comes
to many things in life we aren't in a utopia yet.
People have power
that you don’t like you may have less control over others that’s the way it is
in life it is never perfect.
Family, friend, governments,
aren't perfect if it’s really affecting you or as a people there will come a point
when you will protest agents what is happening.
So for example
when David Cameron put the student fees and Migrate Thatcher introduce the poll
tax. It doesn’t affect the higher class because they have the money, but when
it comes to the lower and middle classes it becomes an issue.
Like the old
saying, you can fool some of the people all the time. All the people some of the
time but you can-not fool all the people all the time.
