Foucault contributions: Sociological theory
In the present work an analysis is carried out on the main contributions of Foucault, trying to understand the processes of his life and through it to be used as a hermeneutical tool for the development of the study.
This work has the following process;identification, analysis, assessment through this process a complete work is fulfilled.
Analysis
“The essential gear loeus of Foucault’s reflections on domination is found in the conceptualizations of Marx referring to the characteristics of the capitalist modernization process. The deficiencies inherent to their contributions can only be amended if they are linked to the Marxian theory about capitalist exploitation ”.
Foucault’s ideas and his analysis and interpretations start from the ideas of the Marxist current, so you have to understand Marx to understand what Foucault refers, this can also exchange positions, you must also understand Foucault to understand MarxThese cases can be given during readings.
The assumption of a relational approach to society. Following the pattern indicated by Hegel, Marx assumed society not as a set of things, but as a set of social relations. Any social phenomenon (be it a merchandise, a production instrument or the same man) is nothing more than the crystallization of a social relations system. Consequently, power must also be understood from this relational perspective (as, on the other hand, Gramsci had already made in his jail notebooks).
It can be observed by the ideas in how it interprets the Foucault society, on crystallization within society, as social relations are implanted in a commercial way, that is to say that these social relations must go through the market first before the interaction betweenYes.
You can determine the paleels played by power through these three processes in which Foucault focuses:
The interpretation of the concept of production in its broad sense to understand social phenomena (not only economic activity, but also ideas, sexual practices, prison techniques, etc.) as results, creations, and not as something given, fixed once and for all. Only ((Production paradigm », taken in this Marxian integral meaning, could allow Foucault, and not as ahistoric essences, given forever ‘
The ways in which power becomes established is by two ways according to Foucault from, and are starting from the fact that those of objectification and subjectivation, given that social productions can be divided into these two, under these two forms the institutions giving fromsenses.
These creations or productions are not eternal, that is, they change through society and the institutions of power in charge of making sense of their new productions
“The understanding of the anti-capitalist revolution not as a simple substitution of the agents holding power, but as a deep and total cultural subversion. Foucault’s reflections enrich the Mamiana thesis about the need for the transformation of the capitalist appropriation mode ”
The revolution proposed by Foucault seeks the freedom of thought, that these institutions giving meaning be seized and implant behaviors on human beings.
The way in which capitalism is empowered is devastating and Foucault agrees with that, for that reason its proposal to transform capitalism appropriates, since it does not let think freely and focuses on crystallizing social relations.
"From power, society is built. It is not a force shirt that is imposed on society to regulate what it produces, but from the beginning society and can interact, producing each other. Therefore, every social phenomenon, every social relationship, is a vehicle and expression of power. This does not lie exclusively in a sector (in this case, that of public institutional devices, or state), but there is a multiplicity of centers, force vectors;The devices are only points of special density, but in no way spaces in which power is confined ”
Foucault defends this because power, through its tools allows you to disseminate information that end up being adopted and established as the common being, within the society accepted by this, for that reason it cannot be said that this power is coercive, moreWell is a power that becomes part of society.
conclusion
Understanding Foucault through his life, also helps us to understand the reason for his studies, the social context, everything that was being given within his life were focusing him and guiding him towards what has been achieved through his intellectual work.
On the theme of power it seemed very applied to our reality, which Foucault mentions, that power moves through these two forms subjectivation and objectification. It is very important to understand that power in society dominates how we do not feel because we end.
Reference
- ACADA, J. (2001). Power and Revolution: Keys to assimilating Foucault. Recerca: Magazine of Thought and Analysis, 69-93.
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