The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States takes an intriguing look at the many ways in which people are increasingly monitored and controlled in everyday life. This provocative new book traces a continuum of social controls, from the simple surveillance camera to lie-detector tests. Raising questions about freedom, privacy, and the power of state and private organizations, this book will help readers identify with and understand the consequences of social control.
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Hello Little Brother,
This review is from: The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States (Paperback)
Mr. Staples addresses the issues arising from surveillance of society. He warns that an Orwellian Big Brother isn't really the problem- that a series of Little Brothers pose the greatest threat to personal liberties. Not many think before giving personal information to banks, the government or a varity of corporations (store credit cards, even Amazon.com asks for personal information). Consider the number of surveillence cameras that monitor your moves at street intersections in some locals, at banks, department store, drive thru lanes, government buildings etc.A sociologist at the University of Kansas, Staples addresses the way new surveillence technology affects society. He notes that as surveillance increases the public increasingly accepts being watched. He examines the development of surveillance techniques from each one's beginning to where we are today. He includes police/prison tactics, body analysis (DNA, drug test etc.), consumer society and the media among others. This book is a great primer for the budding paranoid type, or those who never really thought about how much info on you is floating out there. More developed paranoids get a book they may quote without sounding like a crazy eyed conspericy theorist. This book is not the be all end all on the subject by any means. But I find myself quoting the book more often than I thought I would- I guess that says something.
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surveillance ceremonies, anklet device, meticulous rituals, normalizing judgments, formal social control, community corrections, public torture, disciplinary technology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York Times, Lawrence Journal-World, United States, Michel Foucault, Los Angeles, Big Brother, Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court, New Jersey, The Birth of the Prison, American Management Association, Donald Lowe, Kansas City Star, King's Lynn, Lili Berko, Beverly Hills, Dangerous Diagnostics, Drive Right, Great Britain, Jeremy Bentham, Steven Ray Netherie, Surveying the Surveilled, World Wide Web New!
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Today, nearly ninety percent of U.S. manufacturers are testing workers for drug use.... Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
surveillance ceremonies, anklet device, meticulous rituals, normalizing judgments, formal social control, community corrections, public torture, disciplinary technology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York Times, Lawrence Journal-World, United States, Michel Foucault, Los Angeles, Big Brother, Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court, New Jersey, The Birth of the Prison, American Management Association, Donald Lowe, Kansas City Star, King's Lynn, Lili Berko, Beverly Hills, Dangerous Diagnostics, Drive Right, Great Britain, Jeremy Bentham, Steven Ray Netherie, Surveying the Surveilled, World Wide Web New!
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- Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault on 6 pages
- Michel Foucault the Will to Truth (Social Science Paperbacks) by Sheridan on 6 pages
- Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Norman K. Denzin on page 40, page 125, and Back Matter
- Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control & the American State, 1800-1985 by William G. Staples in Front Matter, page 39, and Back Matter
- Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information by Dorothy Nelkin on page 107, page 124, and Back Matter
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- Global Surveillance and Policing by Elia Zureik on page 112, and page 156
- The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility (Green College Thematic Lecture Series) by Richard V. Ericson on page 224
- Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition by Karen A. Cerulo on page 185
- Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption by George Ritzer in Back Matter
- Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism by Victoria Sanford on page 238
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