Week 2, who rules? Theories of power

Capital vs. labour

Do not have control= do not have power

Power shape people’s opinion

Strong leadership keeps checking people's power

Bellamy's functional represent who is going to have power

Marx theory-people at the top may create more money.

Cornwall teaching school (2014) power[Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.cornwallteachingschool.org/successful-southwest-local-leaders-pilot-project-go-ahead/

Cultural problem

Capitalism is bad for us

Marx-people at the top may create more money

Wisdom (2012) rich and poor[cartoon]. Retrieved from http://eagleman6788.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/7-main-differences-between-rich-and-poor-people/

Who has power in the society?

Banks

media

government

employer

Police

Wealthy people

Country etc.

Marxists and Weber both emphasized capitalist relates to political which considered more priorities than democratic.

Marx: capital and the state

class based conflict between rich and poor

Antony (2010) rich and poor[cartoonRetrieved from http://seventhoughts.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/rich-and-poor.html

Conflict theory

proletariat have little control over the distribution of power

instrumental model

Arbiter model

functionalist model

Society driven by capital

Lynn, C. (2010) Capital [photograph]. Retrieved from http://old.textproject.org/freddysfavorites/capital

Max weber: pluralist elitist or elitist pluralist?

Marx

Elitist model

Pluralist model

Foucalt :power influence on social life.

It manipulate the different class of the society and thus produce control over the lower class.

Power is everywhere.

Ayubsreviews. (2013) Rich and Poor [cartoon]. Retrieved from http://bestreviewsnarticles.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/rich-and-poor-poem.html

Michel Foucault: power and discipline is ‘everywhere’.

According to Weber’s theory, bureaucracy is a system based on discipline, when leaders hold control over others.

Week 5 The disciplinary and punitive state.

Benedictine College. (2013) Bureaucracy[cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.thegregorian.org/blog/community-and-bureaucracy

Week 5 The disciplinary and punitive state.

Weber + Foucault discipline power

Weber vs. Foucault establishing power

Todd Smith. (2013) Discipline [photograph]. Retrieved from http://inspirationaltabloid.com/how-to-become-a-disciplined-person/

Foucault: power is dispersed and pervasive

Weber: power resides in government/administration+centralised

Bureaucracystate apparatuseconomy

Week 5 The disciplinary and punitive state.

Ben Toh. (2012) Jail [photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.ubfriends.org/2012/04/19/in-jail-charged-with-sexual-assault/

Bossworker

Teacher student

Parents Children

Police criminals

Government control the nation

Criminals in Prison under strict rules

Upper class people under class people

Disciplinary power

The Daily Telegraph. (2013) Police and Criminals [photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/police-get-extra-powers-to-arrest-to-stop-criminals-suing/story-fni0cx12-1226748564715

Examination hierarchical observation normalization judgment

Self-regulation: you are supposed to know what is you should do and what you shouldn’t.

3 techniques how people regulate in society

New Zealand Cosmetic Teeth Whitening Association. (2014) Self-regulation [cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.nzctwa.org.nz/nzctwa.asp?DocumentID=153

The relationship between capital and inequality

People living in poverty less able to influence social matters.

Interrelationship between gender geography + ethnicity= socio-economic position

(perceive differently) ‘poor’= category of ‘other’

Week 10 Citizenship and inequality: Migration

Peter Turchin. (2012) Inequality [Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/joseph-stiglitz.-the-price-of-inequality.-cultural-evolution.-the-evolution

morally evaluated ostracised

undeserving –neo-liberal defines citizens as consumes. Most controversial term used to refer to the poor is ‘underclass’.

Week 10 Citizenship and inequality: Migration

Laura Mazurak. (2013) Right or Wrong[Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://oldgoldandblack.com/?p=28224

Inequality

Rich people becomes more richer, poor people becomes more poorer. It is a social phenomenon.

Social expectations shaped our life. We have to become the one that our parents, teacher, boss expected.

Robert Kiyosaki (2013) Rich and poor [Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.successezine.com/2012/12/confidence-of-rich-and-successful-people.html

The relationship between ethnicity (race) and inequality?

Inequality changes but still exist

-ethnic- minority groups more likely to be discriminated

-assumptions/ prejudices result in less opportunities

Race skin color/nationality

Ethnicity more cultural features

Alani (2013) Ethnicity [Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://nailpro.com/book/export/html/4151

The relationship between ethnicity (race) and inequality?

• Environmet

• Religion

• Freedom of speech

Poverty

Ethnicity

Race

Sexuality

Gender

* cultural difference are problem

The Articulate. (2011) Culture difference [photography]. Retrieved from http://thearticulateceo.typepad.com/my-blog/2011/09/cultural-differences-the-power-distance-relationship.html

The daily telegraph. (2012) Twins[photography]. Retrieved from http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/dream-twins-part-of-new-baby-formula/story-e6frf00i-1226504235563

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