Title: Governing the soul
Description: This work is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This "governmentality" perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. This second edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach and a new final chapter that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.
Subjects: Families, Industrial Psychology, Social control, Control (Psychology), History, Applied Psychology, Government policy, Psychological aspects, Zelf, Subjectiviteit, Psychologische aspecten, Politisering, Family, Self, Social Control Policies, Psychology
Time periods: 20th century