How can you identify power exactly? Maybe you would define it as being dominant, or the ability to do something or act in a particular way. As we think about this specific question, Foucault’s idea of power lies outside of many understandings to power. He does not hold any proper value in his idea of power. Foucault’s conception of power is a wide analysis. He moves away from notions which is set to power in a more binary way of domination and force. Power can be as a set of relationships existing everywhere in all sides of our lives from a more small level or to a larger level. Foucault’s analysis suggests that power is the omnipresent and can be found in all social interactions. First, let’s start off by understanding one of his notions. What is bio power? Foucault argues that biopower is a technology which appeared in the late eighteenth century for managing populations. It incorporates certain aspects of disciplinary power. If disciplinary power is about training the actions of bodies, biopower is about managing the births, deaths, reproduction and illnesses of a population. Foucault summaries this notion of power that have evolved during the 17th century. Bio power is described as the ability to “foster life or disallow it …show more content…
During the time I was in school, sex education has been a great increase of attention, mainly for high school students to prevent teenage pregnancy and also STDs. Currently, many classrooms separate students by sex in order to research into the sexual details for the child’s specific sex. This is definitely an example of bio power, seeing as the separation by sex controls the concept of a two gendered society and the explanation of sex education for one sex in terms of the other controls mixed sexuality. sexual education will always have a connection with sexuality, which in turn is always the link for the two poles of bio