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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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This article is published in Eighteenth-Century Studies.The article was published on 1978-01-22. It has received 19485 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prison.read more
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Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for investigating the consequences, both intended and unintended, of public measures has been proposed, identifying two mechanisms, self-fulfilling prophecy and commensuration, that induce reactivity and then distinguishing patterns of effects produced by reactivity.
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Sharing Meaning Across Occupational Communities: The Transformation of Understanding on a Production Floor
TL;DR: This paper links the misunderstandings between engineers, technicians, and assemblers on a production floor to their work contexts, and demonstrates how members of these communities overcome such problems by cocreating common ground that transforms their understanding of the product and the production process.
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Liberatory Postmodernism and the Reenchantment of Consumption
A. Fuat Firat,Alladi Venkatesh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors elaborate on various key ideas about consumption and consumer from a theoretical position that they have labeled "liberatory postmodernism." By unmasking the limitations of modernism that have to do with the onerous nature of its metanarratives and narrow conventionalism, they show that postmodern developments offer alternate visions of consumption processes that have an emancipatory potential.
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The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics
TL;DR: The state has always been difficult to define and its boundary with society appears elusive, porous, and mobile as discussed by the authors, and this elusiveness should not be overcome by sharper definitions, but explored as a clue to the state's nature.