... the functionalist perspective one can see the earlier concept of deviance, as based on norms, acceptable. Deviance serves as a function that is perhaps necessary in society. For instance, rights of passage in any society may be considered deviant to another culture or to the society itself under certain conditions. Lets say that at a bachelor party, a man about to be married may ... be forgiven for his acts of deviant behavior. These behaviors may not be acceptable under any other conditions, but society sanctions rituals and rights of passage. This is most often expressed in group soli...

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... or her. This constant friction of mental forces shapes who the individual becomes within the society. He or she accepts how the system works with no question. According to the passage, "Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the ... meticulous concrete training of useful forces;" (Foucault 334). Foucault gives support to the basic argument concerning the panopticon, that communication is key to knowledge. Within the panopticon, there is no communication ...

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