{"id":51,"date":"2019-02-20T07:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2019-05-13T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:20:05","slug":"log-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/data-collection-logs\/log-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Log 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date. <\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What data did you collect?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What is your initial impression of the data? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How have the data you have collected this week changed\/progressed your thinking about your research project? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What are your next steps?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/academia.edu.documents\/46639277\/Jang_YooJin___Health_2.0__A_Symptom_of_Neoliberal_Healthcare.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&#038;Expires=1557805606&#038;Signature=g%2BUPOPs4i%2FMInhYjo0uEZTBMt%2FE%3D&#038;response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DHealth_2.0_A_Symptom_of_the_Neoliberal_H.pdf<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biopower is concerned with the behaviour of the bodies in one dimension, and in the other it deals with governing the biological<br \/>\nvitality; that is, the socio-economic productivity of the population. Biopolitical governmentality,<br \/>\ntherefore, is the act of governing the population by rendering the activeness, usefulness and<br \/>\ndocility of the body so as to expropriate its productive force, and supervising and regulating the<br \/>\nlife (\u201cHistory of\u201d 135). Biopower later expanded to include more general issues that concern the<br \/>\nbiological bodies; life, health, race, or space of existence.&#8221; &#8211; pg. 7<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subjectivation works in accordance with the power to achieve a certain type of healthiness, happiness or wisdom<br \/>\n(Foucault \u201cTechnologies\u201d 18-9). Biopolitical governments constantly evaluate the population in<br \/>\nrelation to norms and rules; for instance, to assess whether they subjectivate themselves<br \/>\naccording to the norm of healthiness (\u201cAbnormal\u201d 47). Therefore, by pointing out how the<br \/>\npopulation is voluntarily normalising themselves by constant examination and surveillance, it<br \/>\nbecomes apparent that the concept of governmentality offers opportunities to discern what we,<br \/>\nas the subjects, accept as norms and believe to be true. &#8221; pg. 8<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, social campaigns on AIDS can negotiate the norm and stereotypes around the people who have AIDS or HIV by, for instance, changing the language<br \/>\nthat is used to describe them. A simple change of word from \u2018victims\u2019 to \u2018survivors\u2019 is capable of<br \/>\ntransforming the normalised conceptions of people living with HIV\/AIDS (ibid.). It is selfevident that such framing of a certain illness or a state of health can engender different attitudes<br \/>\nshown towards the patients, not to mention that they will have different social and political<br \/>\nrelationships with others members of society. The relationship that patients have with fellow<br \/>\npatients, the public and medical practitioners, and also the relationship between citizens and<br \/>\ngovernmental institutions in the healthcare sector is negotiable. &#8221; pg. 9<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This mode of thought is also vitally linked to neoliberal human capital theory, especially the work of Gary Becker of Chicago<br \/>\nSchool, which contributed to theorising American neoliberalism (Dilts 130). Human capital<br \/>\ntheory views human as means of production that produces economic return, and whose<br \/>\nproductivity is increased by investments such as education and healthcare (Becker). Individuals<br \/>\nare entrepreneurs of the self, and all human activities are redefined through economic logic,<br \/>\nincluding investment, consumption or production (Dilts 130).&#8221; pg. 11<\/p>\n<p>-What I have found in this reading is a bit more comprehensive understanding of what is going on behind the logic of our healthcare system. But what I seem to be finding is that there are many points where the logic turns against itself. The idea of biopower and human capital seem to be intimately linked. Human capital will produce higher economic return the healthier the human capital is because this will in turn cause them to be more productive. Using people as a force to generate productivity is a common theme amongst biopower and human capital. If all individuals are entrepreneurs of the self, and we want a more efficient, stable, economy and work force, why wouldn&#8217;t we want the people to of a country to be more aware of their bodies? There seems to be a major paradox within these ideas and how inefficient our healthcare system is as doing its job. Also the ideas of putting different labels among different diseases and the power of this is extremely interesting and extremely linked to consciousness based healing. This essay also covers what the author calls health 2.0, which is how health has entered into social media, the internet, etc. and how people turn to these things to save money. If more time was invested into health 2.0, and more time invested in creating a population whose awareness of their bodies is stronger, this must result in a more productive population<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date. What data did you collect? What is your initial impression of the data? How have the data you have collected this week changed\/progressed your thinking about your research project? What challenges did you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/data-collection-logs\/log-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Log 12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-blopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}