Continuous Analytical Reflection

1. 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/

2.  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/

3. 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

4.  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

5. 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

6.  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

7. 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.co
m/how-to-become-a-
disciplined-person/

8.  Foucault: power is dispersed and pervasive
 Weber: power resides in
government/administration+centralised
 Bureaucracystate apparatuseconomy
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/

9.  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

10.  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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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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