Americank Model of Society: The Observation and Control of Individuals

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American society, as any other organized society in the world faces the consequences of Panopticism as a political technology at which the system look for solitude, confinement, rehabilitation, custody, labor and instruction of society “to induce in the people a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power.”(Foucault 288)
The functioning of power fosters the perfection of society through the observation and control of individuals by characterizing and classifying individual´s behaviors. According to the deepness of the surveillance of the American Model of society, there are four levels of observation/surveillance:
a) Behavioral Surveillance: As if United States of America were a lab, in some states and even at the federal level, government passes laws to test the response of society toward those laws; therefore, government will have an idea of how receptive or aloof society is in certain issues. Government will also be able to classify the behavior of different groups who are members of a single society. In 1965, Massachusetts had passed into law the Racial Imbalance Act, which ordered school districts to desegregate; otherwise, educational funding would be lost. It was the first law of its kind in the nation; it was opposed by many in Boston, especially white ethnic areas, such as the Irish-American district of South Boston. Boston Busing Crisis, was one those situations at which laws passes as experiments to test how receptive people would be in such volatile situation as segregation was during the second half of the twentieth century.
b) Organizational Surveillance: This level of observation could be both effective and dumb because it creates arbitrary control on easy matte...

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...or everyone equally.
5. Bureaucracy: A new white-collar labor force is necessary to set up the procedures for information retrieval and storage. This form of organization encourages a separation from real people since it turns individuals into statistics and paperwork. A classic example is Nazi Germany's Adolf Eichmann.
6. Efficiency: Value is placed on the most efficient means of organizing data and individuals to affect the mass production and dissemination of more goods and information, even if at the expense of exploitation or injustice.
7. Specialization: Members of the workforce are organized into increasingly specialized fields; therefore, we increasingly rely on other "experts" to complete tasks that had previously been shared or had represented common knowledge (the preparation of meats and other food products, building construction, transportation, etc.).

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