Psychosociology of Normalization Devices

Code:

LP502

Acronym:

PDN

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology of Deviant Behavior

Instance: 2005/2006 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Psychology Degree

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LPSI	24	Plano oficial a partir de 2001/02	5	6	16	-

Objectives

1) To introduce the psychologists-to-be in the problematic of institutions that lead with deviant behaviour objects and its practices, with a critical concern;
2) To work out frames which enable the reading of the institutional field while a socio-historical and cultural translation of the articulation of power and knowledge strategies, that is, while devices.

Program

I. Origins of Psychological Subject
1. Historical establishment of the modern individuality; the emergence of disciplinary strategies towards this new object of normalization.
II. Device and normalization
1. Device concept and method
2. Social control devices. Power: the nature of diffused power and social control microphysics; Knowledgement: sciences as normalization devices-epistemic normalization; Institutional Space: primary and secondary institutions; Public Space: territorial functioning and social informal control; outcasts spaces and deviant appropriations, ecological segregation and differential association. Space while a device of social control.
3. Devices diversification: the emergence of traditional devices of transgressor behaviours control; actual symptoms of crisis and creation of alternatives; critical analysis of the concept of “alternative”.
a) Insanity control devices: the asylum turned into hospital; the medical-mental knowledgement-power; “alternative experiences” (post-asylum).
b) Drug control devices: anthropological level; institutional level; enunciating level.
c) Penal-juridical devices: prisons; family courts; social reinsertion; young offender institutions; prisons’ therapeutic communities.

Main Bibliography

COHEN, S. (1998) – Visiones de control social. Barcelona: PPU.
FOUCAULT, M. (1976) – Histoire de la sexualité, vol. 1 : La volonté de savoir. Paris: Gallimard.
FOUCAULT, M. (1975) – Surveiller et punir. Paris: Gallimard.
GOFFMAN, E.(1987) - Manicómios, prisões e conventos. S. Paulo: Ed. Perspectiva.
MUNCIE, J.; MACLAUGHLIN, E.; LANGAN, M.(1996) –Criminological perspectives: a reader. London: Sage.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Number of hours per week: Theoretical – 2h/Practical – 2h

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam