Power and control in science: a case study of a syllabus for science and technology

Based on three years of participant observation, this article provides insight into the working relationship between a small business owner and undocumented immigrant workers at a Korean-Japanese restaurant. The case study focuses on a Korean American businesswoman who depends on the unpaid labor of family members and the cheap labor of undocumented immigrants. Using naturalistic ethnography, which consists of casual interactions and conversations with informants, the author relates the life history of the owner, Mrs. Kwon, who asks her employees to call her “Mama,” and analyzes her preference for undocumented immigrant workers. The article elucidates the ways she asserts power and control in the workplace.

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The Third Modulation: Foucault, Security and Population

Foucault Studies ◽

10.22439/fs.v25i2.5582 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 228

Author(s):

Richard Togman

Keyword(s):

Government Control ◽

Disciplinary Power ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Colonial India ◽

The Third ◽

Power And Control ◽

The Individual ◽

And Control ◽

Modern Era

Evolving as Foucault’s third modulation of power, security power marks a radical departure from previous eras of sovereign and disciplinary power. Dramatically decentering the individual, altering the means by which government acts and shifting from a static to a dynamic conception of temporal activity, an understanding of Foucauldian security power provides a number of critical insights into modern governance. This paper seeks to explain and analyze Foucault’s conceptualization of security power as the new language of governance and apply it in relation to the pervasive phenomena of government attempts to control fertility. Using the cases of inter-war France and post-colonial India, the theorization of security power will be grounded in the realities of natalist policy demonstrating the universality of the exercise of security power and its applicability to numerous contexts and settings. The concretization of theory in case study not only illuminates the workings of a new model of power but highlights the difficulty of resisting this novel type of government control. Understanding power to understand modes of resistance is central to the Foucauldian method, and drawing from Foucault’s newly translated lectures, this paper will bring to light a fascinating mode of analysis which helps illuminate the evolving nature of power and control in the modern era.

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Psychodynamic Aspects of Demonic Possession and Satanic Worship

South African Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1177/008124639302300405 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 186-194 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gavin Ivey

Keyword(s):

Object Relations ◽

Object Relation ◽

Melanie Klein ◽

Demonic Possession ◽

Power And Control ◽

Narcissistic Injury ◽

Psychological Sense ◽

The Individual ◽

And Control

The phenomena of demonic possession and Satanic ritual involvement are understandable within a demonological discourse as the psychic infiltration of malevolent supernatural entities. However, those rejecting the demonological model, but who wish to make psychological sense out of these phenomena, are frustrated by the lack of academically sound psychological material on the subject. In this article I address this lacuna by developing an object relations psychoanalytic model of both involuntary demonic possession, and voluntary Satanic ritual participation. I begin by examining the Freudian understanding of demonic possession, using the classical psychoanalytic paradigm. The Freudian model is criticized as being too limited, and an alternative object relations model, based on the theories of Melanie Klein and Ronald Fairbairn, is proposed. A case study is used to advance the idea that the internalization of a bad paternal object constitutes the developmental nucleus of demonic possession. The intrusive return of the projected bad object relation gives rise to the experience of possession. In voluntary Satanic worship, however, a different dynamic involving the individual's identification with the bad object suggests itself. The unconscious motivation for this identification arises from the child's experience of vulnerability and powerlessness at the hands of the persecutory parent. Identification with this bad object, symbolized by Satan, gives the individual a sense of personal power and control over his/her life. Satanic involvement thus compensates for the original childhood narcissistic injury.

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MODE OF PRODUCTION IN FISHERMEN COMMUNITY: CASE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SHIP OWNER AND LABOUR OF FISHERMEN IN PULAU BAAI AREA, BENGKULU CITY

AGRITROPICA Journal of Agricultural Sciences ◽

10.31186/j.agritropica.1.2.100-112 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 100-112

Author(s):

Elia Damayanti ◽

Septri Widiono ◽

Satria Putra Utama

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Method ◽

Research Area ◽

Main Method ◽

Subsistence Production ◽

Ship Owner ◽

Power And Control ◽

And Control ◽

Marxist Tradition ◽

Mode Of Production

Modernization in catch fisheries sector by mean machinary application for fishing could be devided into some phases. Every phases showed some production relation between the ship owners and their labours. In the Marxist tradition of thought, the study about these relationship could be gained by elaborate the mode of production. For more specific, this study were elaboratethe mode of production in every phases of modernization. Mode of production consisted force of production and relation of production. In this context, force of production was mean of production like ships, net and seine. While relation of production wasthe organization of fishermen, power and control by the owners to their labours. The study was conducted by using qualitative method so depth interviewed of some key informants had been main method in collecting datas. The results of the study indicated that fisheries modernization in research area held into four phases. We called them as period oflancang, trawl, bagan, and purseseine. Further more, the mode of production in every phases as follow namely, lancang was subsistence production, trawl was commercialist production, and bagan was commercialist production. While purseseine had has two mode of production, namely commercialist production for Bengkulu’s owner and capitalist production for Chinese’s owner.Keywords : mode of production, Pulau Baai, Lancang, Trawl, Bagan, and Purse Seine.

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Communication intervention in an adolescent with profound cognitive impairment and autistic features

South African Journal of Communication Disorders ◽

10.4102/sajcd.v43i1.239 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ilze Pansegrouw ◽

Erna Alant

Keyword(s):

Positive Reinforcement ◽

Single Case ◽

Communication Intervention ◽

Cognitively Impaired ◽

Power And Control ◽

Need For Support ◽

Independence Results ◽

The Right ◽

And Control

The service delivery model currently used with a large proportion of profoundly cognitively impaired (PCI) persons, results in the under-utilization of their potential and often contributes to social isolation. By providing communication and independence training the self-actualisation potential and the right to power and control, is recognised. This single case study describes the implementation of a communication intervention model with a PCI adolescent. His mother was trained in the use of picture symbol task analysis as well as positive reinforcement to promote change in the adolescent's communication skills and independence. Results indicated significant changes in the skills of both participants and highlighted the mother's need for support to meet the demands of change.

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The Third Modulation: Foucault, Security and Population

Foucault Studies ◽

10.22439/fs.v0i25.5582 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 228-250

Author(s):

Richard Togman

Keyword(s):

Government Control ◽

Disciplinary Power ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Colonial India ◽

The Third ◽

Power And Control ◽

The Individual ◽

And Control ◽

Modern Era

Evolving as Foucault’s third modulation of power, security power marks a radical departure from previous eras of sovereign and disciplinary power. Dramatically decentering the individual, altering the means by which government acts and shifting from a static to a dynamic conception of temporal activity, an understanding of Foucauldian security power provides a number of critical insights into modern governance. This paper seeks to explain and analyze Foucault’s conceptualization of security power as the new language of governance and apply it in relation to the pervasive phenomena of government attempts to control fertility. Using the cases of inter-war France and post-colonial India, the theorization of security power will be grounded in the realities of natalist policy demonstrating the universality of the exercise of security power and its applicability to numerous contexts and settings. The concretization of theory in case study not only illuminates the workings of a new model of power but highlights the difficulty of resisting this novel type of government control. Understanding power to understand modes of resistance is central to the Foucauldian method, and drawing from Foucault’s newly translated lectures, this paper will bring to light a fascinating mode of analysis which helps illuminate the evolving nature of power and control in the modern era.

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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Problem-Based Learning (Pbl) Implemented In The Textile Engineering Course - A Case Study On Ahsanullah University Of Science And Technology, Bangladesh

Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education ◽

10.2478/cplbu-2014-0024 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 111-114

Author(s):

Lal Mohan Baral ◽

Ramzan Muhammad ◽

Claudiu Vasile Kifor ◽

Ioan Bondrea

Keyword(s):

Engineering Students ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Problem Based Learning ◽

Professional Life ◽

System Level ◽

Teaching Tool ◽

Technical Problems ◽

Empirical Survey ◽

Undergraduate Programs

AbstractProblem-based learning as a teaching tool is now used globally in many areas of higher education. It provides an opportunity for students to explore technical problems from a system-level perspective and to be self-directed life-long learner which is mandatory for equipping engineering students with the skill and knowledge. This paper presents a case study illustrating the effectiveness of implemented Problem-based learning (PBL) during five semesters in the undergraduate programs of Textile Engineering in Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST). An assessment has been done on the basis of feedback from the students as well as their employers by conducting an empirical survey for the evaluation of PBL impact to enhance the student's competencies. The Evaluations indicate that students have achieved remarkable competencies through PBL practices which helped them to be competent in their professional life.

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