Modeling Foucault: Dualities of power in institutional fields
ISBN: 978-1-84855-866-3, eISBN: 978-1-84855-867-0
Publication date: 12 August 2009
Abstract
The work of Michel Foucault is taken as inspiration for a study of the organizational field of asylums, prisons, orphanages, and other carceral organizations operating in New York City in 1888. Foucault argues that institutional power is organized into dually ordered system of truth and power. Using text data describing the clients and institutional technologies (organizational “power signatures”) of 168 organizations, we apply structural equivalence methods to unpack speech activity, showing that as Foucault suggests, there may be dually ordered sub-domains of truth and power that help define the underlying logic of this institutional field.
Citation
Mohr, J.W. and Neely, B. (2009), "Modeling Foucault: Dualities of power in institutional fields", Meyer, R.E., Sahlin, K., Ventresca, M.J. and Walgenbach, P. (Ed.) Institutions and Ideology (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 27), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 203-255. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2009)0000027009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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