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- Title: Progress, Public Health, And Power: Foucault and the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan (Report)
- Author : Canadian Review of Sociology
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 240 KB
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PRIVATE IDENTITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH The relationship between social structure and individual personality bas been an enduring and prominent focus of sociological theory. Marx and Engels (1968:32) argued that forms of individuality are rooted in specific structures of production relations: "As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production." Foucault (1977:170) argued that forms of individuality are rooted in specific structures of power relations: "Discipline makes individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise." Foucault (1977:221) linked these two claims in the analysis of the European transition to capitalist and disciplinary social forms: