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CRCJ 4300

Social Control

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Introduction to social control from early theorizations linking social control to the genesis of the self, to preoccupations with the sorting of humans and the guiding of their conducts, including contemporary engagements with moralization, penal intensification, sovereign exceptionality, and immigration control.

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Course catalogue

2024

Readings

  • George Herbert Mead. (1925). “The Genesis of the Self and Social Control.” International Journal of Ethics. 35(3): 251-277.
  • Mills, C.W. (1939) (1963). Language, Logic, and Culture.” In Harowitz, I. L. “Power, Politics and People.
  • The Collected Essays of C. W. Mills. New York: Oxford University Press. 423-438.
  • Marcuse, H. (1964). “The new forms of control.” In Marcuse, H. One Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston: Beason Press, 1-18.
  • Foucault, “The Subject and Power” in Michel Foucault, Power: Essential Works of Foucault, Volume 3, (NY: New Press, 1994), 326-348.
  • Foucault: “The Body of the Condemned” (pp. 1-31) Discipline and Punish Foucault: “The Spectacle of the Scaffold” (pp. 32-69) Discipline and Punish
  • Foucault: “Docile Bodies” (pp. 135-169) Discipline and Punish Foucault: “The Means of Correct Training” (pp. 170-194) Discipline and Punish
  • Foucault: “Generalized Punishment,” (pp. 73-103) Discipline and Punish.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): CRCJ 2100 , fourth-year standing, and enrollment in a B.A. or Minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, or by permission of the Institute. Seminar three hours per week.

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