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Week 2, who rules? Theories of power Capital vs. labour Do not have control= do not have power Power shape people’s opinion Strong leadership keeps checking people's power Bellamy's functional represent who is going to have power Marx theory-people at the top may create more money. Cornwall teaching school (2014) power[Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.cornwallteachingschool.org/su ccessful-southwest-local-leaders-pilot-p roject-go-ahead /

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Week 2, who rules? Theories of power

Capital vs. labour Do not have control= do not

have power Power shape people’s

opinion Strong leadership keeps

checking people's power Bellamy's functional represent

who is going to have power Marx theory-people at the top

may create more money.

Cornwall teaching school (2014) power[Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.cornwallteachingschool.org/successful-southwest-local-leaders-pilot-project-go-ahead/

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Cultural problem

Capitalism is bad for us

Marx-people at the top may create more money

Wisdom (2012) rich and poor[cartoon]. Retrieved from http://eagleman6788.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/7-main-differences-between-rich-and-poor-people/

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Who has power in the society?

Banks media government employer Police Wealthy people Country etc. Marxists and Weber

both emphasized capitalist relates to political which considered more priorities than democratic.

Marx: capital and the state

class based conflict between rich and poor

Antony (2010) rich and poor[cartoonRetrieved from http://seventhoughts.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/rich-and-poor.html

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Conflict theory proletariat have little

control over the distribution of power

instrumental model Arbiter model functionalist model

Society driven by capital

Lynn, C. (2010) Capital [photograph]. Retrieved from http://old.textproject.org/freddysfavorites/capital

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Max weber: pluralist elitist or elitist pluralist?

Marx Elitist model Pluralist model

Foucalt :power influence on social life.

It manipulate the different class of the society and thus produce control over the lower class.

Power is everywhere.

Ayubsreviews. (2013) Rich and Poor [cartoon]. Retrieved from http://bestreviewsnarticles.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/rich-and-poor-poem.html

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Michel Foucault: power and discipline is ‘everywhere’.

According to Weber’s theory, bureaucracy is a system based on discipline, when leaders hold control over others.

Week 5 The disciplinary and punitive state.

Benedictine College. (2013) Bureaucracy[cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.thegregorian.org/blog/community-and-bureaucracy

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Week 5 The disciplinary and punitive state.

Weber + Foucault discipline power

Weber vs. Foucault establishing power

Todd Smith. (2013) Discipline [photograph]. Retrieved from http://inspirationaltabloid.com/how-to-become-a-disciplined-person/

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Foucault: power is dispersed and pervasive Weber: power resides in

government/administration+centralised Bureaucracystate apparatuseconomy

Week 5 The disciplinary and punitive state.

Ben Toh. (2012) Jail [photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.ubfriends.org/2012/04/19/in-jail-charged-with-sexual-assault/

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Boss worker Teacher student Parents Children Police criminals Government control the nation Criminals in Prison under strict rules Upper class people under class people

Disciplinary power

The Daily Telegraph. (2013) Police and Criminals [photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/police-get-extra-powers-to-arrest-to-stop-criminals-suing/story-fni0cx12-1226748564715

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Examination hierarchical observation normalization judgment

Self-regulation: you are supposed to know what is you should do and what you shouldn’t.

3 techniques how people regulate in society

New Zealand Cosmetic Teeth Whitening Association. (2014) Self-regulation [cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.nzctwa.org.nz/nzctwa.asp?DocumentID=153

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The relationship between capital and inequality

People living in poverty less able to influence social matters.

Interrelationship between gender geography + ethnicity= socio-economic position

(perceive differently) ‘poor’= category of ‘other’

Week 10 Citizenship and inequality: Migration

Peter Turchin. (2012) Inequality [Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/joseph-stiglitz.-the-price-of-inequality.-cultural-evolution.-the-evolution

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morally evaluated ostracised

undeserving –neo-liberal defines citizens as consumes. Most controversial term used to refer to the poor is ‘underclass’.

Week 10 Citizenship and inequality: Migration

Laura Mazurak. (2013) Right or Wrong[Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://oldgoldandblack.com/?p=28224

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Inequality

Rich people becomes more richer, poor people becomes more poorer. It is a social phenomenon.

Social expectations shaped our life. We have to become the one that our parents, teacher, boss expected.

Robert Kiyosaki (2013) Rich and poor [Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://www.successezine.com/2012/12/confidence-of-rich-and-successful-people.html

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The relationship between ethnicity (race) and inequality?

Inequality changes but still exist

-ethnic- minority groups more likely to be discriminated

-assumptions/ prejudices result in less opportunities

Race skin color/nationality

Ethnicity more cultural features

Alani (2013) Ethnicity [Cartoon]. Retrieved from http://nailpro.com/book/export/html/4151

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The relationship between ethnicity (race) and inequality?

• Environmet

• Religion• Freedom

of speech

Poverty Ethnicity Race Sexuality Gender

* cultural difference are problem

The Articulate. (2011) Culture difference [photography]. Retrieved from http://thearticulateceo.typepad.com/my-blog/2011/09/cultural-differences-the-power-distance-relationship.html

The daily telegraph. (2012) Twins[photography]. Retrieved from http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/dream-twins-part-of-new-baby-formula/story-e6frf00i-1226504235563

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