His big thing was looking at how social control happens in the modern world, especially how people are made docile through social pressure and the constant possibility of surveillance. Largely informed by his time in mental hospitals and as a Maoist political prisoner in France.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/
His big thing was looking at how social control happens in the modern world, especially how people are made docile through social pressure and the constant possibility of surveillance. Largely informed by his time in mental hospitals and as a Maoist political prisoner in France.