- Focault is interested in the ways in which knowledge, language and culture operates in society and seeks to develop an approach to power which departs from the conventional perspectives found in sociology.
- Conventional perspectives e.g. Karl Marx or Max Weber.
- Focault understands social relationships as much less permanent or stable and influenced very strongly by patterns of language or discourse which he believes organize the way in which we relate to each other.
· Straight or gay
· Huts or houses
· Civil war or tribal war
TRUMAN’S three discourses
- “There poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas”. Truman
- If you are not into the benefit of production and believe that technology can save us, you are not a peace loving person.
- Technology and production is the key to development.
UN justify: “There is a sense in which rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustment. “ It is used as a threat, and to treat the development countries as threatening, being poor is the same as being underdeveloped.
