... those who tend to examine the more tedious of interactions that occur daily between people and communities are called microsociologists. While the ideas of sociology were first introduced in the seventeenth century during the Enlightenment, it was not until French philosopher named Auguste Comte came along that the official term sociology was coined. He used it to define his vision of a new ... ...

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... pure and abstract but is implicated in networks of power relations". (224) Michel Foucault argument on panopticism is a very confusing one. As is understood, Panopticism is a system enacted in the seventeenth century to control the spread of plague. It worked like a "system of surveillance" (254). Foucault's goes on to compare "rituals of exclusion" used to control lepers, to the modern day relations ... ...

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