Foucault and Power: A Critique and Retheorization

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2022.2133803

M. Haugaard

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Abstract

ABSTRACT From the perspective of sociological theory, Foucault’s concepts of power, power-knowledge, and discipline are one-sided. While Foucault contends that there is no center of power, his account of power remains top-down or structural, missing the interactive and enabling aspects of power. A more balanced view would suggest that all exercises of power include meaningful agency (the ability to do something); social structures (not simply as constraints but as interactive creations); social knowledge (including both reifying truth claims and enabling truth or knowledge); and social-ontological being-in-the-social-world (both as enabling and dominating).

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福柯与权力:批判与再理论化

摘要从社会学理论的角度来看，福柯的权力观、权力知识观和纪律观是片面的。虽然福柯认为没有权力中心，但他对权力的描述仍然是自上而下或结构性的，缺少了权力的互动和使能方面。更平衡的观点认为，所有权力的行使都包括有意义的代理（做某事的能力）；社会结构（不仅仅是约束，而是互动创造）；社会知识（包括具体化真理主张和实现真理或知识）；以及社会本体论存在于社会世界中（既作为使能又作为支配）。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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