“Guard Labor”
February 7th, 2010 by SocProf and tagged Economic Sociology, Economy, Social Inequalities, Social Stratification, Sociology, surveillance society
This is interesting (and cited everywhere already):
I would argue that in the context of the surveillance society, this notion needs to be broadened beyond protecting private wealth to other forms of power preservation.
And nice debunking of the functionalist view of inequalities. Actually, the idea of imposing discipline is a nice illustration of the role of the neo-liberal state provided by Wacquant in Punishing The Poor.
Also, the idea that inequalities are actually detrimental to society as a whole, including the wealthiest segments is thoroughly explained in The Spirit Level.
Furthermore:
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