Disciplinary institutions (
French: ''institution disciplinaire'') is a
concept
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proposed by
Michel Foucault in ''
Discipline and Punish
''Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'' (french: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes tha ...
'' (1975).
School
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes comp ...
,
prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, corre ...
,
barracks, or the
hospital are examples of historical disciplinary
institutions, all created in their modern form in the 19th century with the
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going f ...
. Discipline "cannot be identified with any one institution or apparatus,"
Deleuze
Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...
explains, "precisely because it is a type of
power
Power most often refers to:
* Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work"
** Engine power, the power put out by an engine
** Electric power
* Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events
** Abusive power
Power may a ...
, a technology, that traverses every kind of apparatus or institution, linking them, prolonging them, and making them converge and function in a new way."
[Deleuze (1986, 26).]
This concept may be related to the concept of "
total institution
A total institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Privacy is limited in ...
" proposed by
Erving Goffman in 1961, as well as to
Louis Althusser's
Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA).
See also
*
Governmentality
Governmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the later years of his life, roughly between 1977 and his death in 1984, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France during this time.
Governmenta ...
References
Sources
*
Deleuze, Gilles. 1986. ''Foucault''. Trans. Sean Hand. London: Athlone, 1988. .
*
Foucault, Michel. 1975. ''
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison''. Trans.
Alan Sheridan
Alan Sheridan (1934 - 2015) was an English author and translator.
Life
Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lyc ...
. London: Penguin, 1991. .
Michel Foucault
Concepts in social philosophy
Political philosophy
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