EDIT: Don't listen to me, I've never read the book, just saw a video. In Frameworks of power (pp.

Foucault notices a change from sovereign power to disciplinary power. Sovereign power involves obedience to the law of the king or central authority figure.

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Foucault discusses the system of surveillance for disciplinary institutions such as prisons, hospitals, asylums, schools and army barracks. The aim is to “cure” the individual of his mistakes (10). This sovereign power was of a juridical form. Listen to usampo. It was a power over life which could only be attested ‘through the death he was capable of requiring’. (138). It refers to the control of human bodies through an anatomo-politics of the human body and biopolitics of the population through societal Disciplinary institutions. Foucault's conception. EDIT: Don't listen to me, I've never read the book, just saw a video. Post-structuralism, sovereign power and disciplinary power.

Disciplinary power works by conditioning, training and supervising individuals to behave in a publicly accepted manner. The examples of such power are mentioned in details in the very beginning of his Discipline and Punishment. For Foucault, biopower is a technology of power for managing humans in large groups; the distinctive quality of this political technology is that it allows for the control of entire populations. Disciplinary power is exercised through surveillance and knowledge. Foucault traced the development of various power mechanisms across the modern period so as to shed light on the techniques of domination which human beings were subject to. Foucault (1979) claims that ‘disciplinary power’ is exercised by those more powerful than their subordinates in order to make their subordinates behave in ways in which the ones in power wish them to.
Clegg, S. R. (1989). Foucault goes on to argue that power structures not only control people’s actions directly, but indirectly whereby people become easier to control… This suffices to rule out those types of liberationist Even now, however, remnants of sovereign power still remain in tension with disciplinary power. If resistance is a reaction to power, then the characteristics of the power strategy/relation affect the kinds of resistance that subsequently prevail.

Foucault discusses the system of surveillance for disciplinary institutions such as prisons, hospitals, asylums, schools and army barracks. For example, Foucault’s account establishes that modern power is“produc- : tive” rather than prohibitive. Biopower, like disciplinary power or sovereign power, is a mode of power. In HSvI he defines biopower as essentially "power over life," describing it variously as power "that gave itself the function of administering life," or "power to foster life or to disallow it to the point of death."

23 Note 2 above, 136.