Michelle Bachelet

(noun)

Chile's first female president (2006-2010).

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Examples of Michelle Bachelet in the following topics:

  • The Cross-Cultural Perspective

    • From 2006 until 2010, Michelle Bachelet served as Chile's first female president.

  • The Conflict Perspective on Deviance

    • Michel Foucault believed that torture had been phased out from modern society due to the dispersion of power; so there was no need any more for the wrath of the state on a deviant individual.
    • The French philosopher Michel Foucault theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline.

  • Social Control Theory

    • This is the question taken up by social theorist Michel Foucault in his 1975 seminal text, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
    • In his 1975 seminal text, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault identifies a new form of power introduced in the eighteenth century: discipline.

  • The Feminist Perspective

    • Feminist critiques of heterosexism thus align with queer theory and the ideas of Michel Foucault, who studied the relationship between power and sexuality.

  • Power and Inequality

    • French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984) saw power as "a complex strategic situation in a given society social setting".

  • Objective vs. Critical vs. Subjective

    • Specifically, they - along with critical theorists like Michel Foucault, bell hooks, and Patricia Hill Collins - argued that since all science was conducted and all data was interpreted by human beings and all human beings have beliefs, values, and biases that they are often unaware of and that shape their perception of reality (see The Social Construction of Reality), objectivity only existed within the beliefs and values of the people that claimed it.

  • Introduction

    • In fact, social theorists, such as Michel Foucault, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Erving Goffman, and George Herbert Mead, have long noted that language lies at the root of all human culture.

  • Gender vs. Sex

    • While many (especially in the biological, psychological and medical sciences) still promote the "two sexes" or "XX/XY" model, these perspectives are increasingly demonstrated to be ideological rather than scientifically based forms of knowledge (see Michel Foucault for discussion of the socially constructed and political nature of all human knowledge).

  • Bibliography

    • Bougon, Michel, Karl Weick, and Din Binkhorst. 1977.