Summary Of "The Policing Of The Families" By Jacques Donzelot: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

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THE POLICING OF THE FAMILIES

CHAPTER 3 GOVERNING THROUGH THE FAMILY

Introduction

Donzelot argues that in the OLD REGIME (the French monarchical system, prior to the Revolution of 1789) the FAMILY was the subject and object of power relations. Subject because it produced its own model of power governed by the head of the family; This was because the head of the family was included in CORPORATIONS, VILLAGE COMMUNITIES, BLOCKS OF RELIGIOUS AND / OR FEUDAL DEPENDENCE.

THE FAMILY WAS THE MINIMAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, ARTICULATING IN AN INDISOCIABLE DEPENDENCE THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE. IN RELATION TO THE CENTRAL POWER, THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY HAD TO PROVIDE AN INCOME IN THE FORM OF TAX AND MEN (FOR THE MILICIA) IN EXCHANGE OF PROTECTION AND SOCIAL RECOGNITION

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Jan 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201938727

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Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of The Policing Of The Families By Jacques Donzelot

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MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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Donzelot, Jacques

THE POLICING OF THE FAMILIES

CHAPTER 3 GOVERNING THROUGH THE FAMILY

Introduction

Donzelot argues that in the OLD REGIME (the French monarchical system, prior to the Revolution of 1789) the FAMILY was the subject and object of power relations. Subject because it produced its own model of power governed by the head of the family; This was because the head of the family was included in CORPORATIONS, VILLAGE COMMUNITIES, BLOCKS OF RELIGIOUS AND / OR FEUDAL DEPENDENCE.

THE FAMILY WAS THE MINIMAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, ARTICULATING IN AN INDISOCIABLE DEPENDENCE THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE. IN RELATION TO THE CENTRAL POWER, THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY HAD TO PROVIDE AN INCOME IN THE FORM OF TAX AND MEN (FOR THE MILICIA) IN EXCHANGE OF PROTECTION AND SOCIAL RECOGNITION

In this sense, not belonging to a FAMILY poses a PUBLIC problem. The homeless, the beggars and the vagrants are not attached to the SOCIAL APPARATUS.

Donzelot marks that the head of the family had almost total power, he could decide on the future of his children, the employment of his relatives and marital unions. In turn, the STATE relied directly on the family to maintain the PUBLIC ORDER, in a multiple collaboration scheme. The STATE requires the family head to keep his family within the established rules and, if this is fulfilled, it guarantees him total power over them.

This scheme begins to be inadequate from the 18th century. The family is no longer able to contain its members, through maintenance. More and more the poor and the beggars; they are organizing into gangs, which assault and sow disorder. Family authority and the use of lettres de cachet (letters stamped by the king imposing imprisonment or exile without trial) are questioned. The author marks that these two lines of destruction converge in the storming of the Bastille (Paris jail). All those who are no longer contained or fed by the socio-family apparatuses challenge the State to take responsibility for its citizens and not imprison them with lettres de cachet.

With this double abolition, the projects of a State arise that organize the happiness of citizens, that provide assistance, work, education and health. The FAMILY is at the center of the political debate. On the one hand, there are the state or socialists who deny the family and who are accused of totalitarianism. On the other, the liberals who promote private property and the family, who are accused of conservatism.

Donzelot argues that this debate serves to understand the CURRENT