Surveillance, Power and Modernity: Bureaucracy and Discipline from 1700 to the Present Day

by Christopher Dandeker

As a result of the writings of Foucault, surveillance has come to be seen as a phenomenon of major importance in modern societies. But there are few, if any, studies which relate the concept of surveillance to that of bureaucracy, thus connecting Foucault to Max Weber. Dandeker's text breaks new ground in re-examining the framework of Weber's analysis of bureaucracy in the light of problems of surveillance. The author also provides a critique of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074561342X
• ISBN13: 9780745613420
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"