Michel Foucault – Social Systems Theory

Prison as a function system

March 30, 2019 Carlton Clark

In modern society, there is a division of labor between the legal system (the law) and the prison (or maybe penal) system. The law has

The Social Contract, Consensus, and Foucault

March 17, 2019 Carlton Clark

Another consequence of the assumption that individuals materialize society through their behavior lies in the hypothesis that structural problems of society (e.g., excessive differentiation without sufficient integration, or contradictions in the structures and behavioral expectations of society) manifest themselves in deviant individual behavior and can be empirically ascertained in such behavior.