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An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts

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Foucault's Theory of Normalization

Foucault writes that the carceral archipelago transported this technique from the penal institution to the entirety of the social body. Normalizing power in the age after the late 18th century and the early 19th century is slowly beginning to be firmly encased in a medicine of psychiatry, Foucault says. The practices of the penal colony of matre are no longer merely an exception, but become a day-to-day experience within society.

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