Michael Foucault distinguishes between two different and distinct forms of power, disciplinary and sovereign. Fouccault describes disciplinary power as the new type of power in the modern civilization. The use of disciplinary power transpired in the 17th and 18th century, and it used specific procedures such as distributing individuals into space, controls of activity, observation, judging, and examination, to regulate the people. The first way to create discipline is to distribute individuals in space. This space is usually analytical and physical. Discipline demands enclose, so that you see everything that is going on. Inside of this enclosure there is a partitioning where each individual has his or her own place inside the space. Once the individuals are in the divided up space the spaces are made to be functional. Each separate space has some thing different to do that completes the whole. Each unit is divided up into rank, and this is where the analytical and the physical space mix. An example of this structure is in a hospital. In a hospital you part ion the units by floors, each nurse has a station on a separate floor. Then the different floors in the hospital are functional, there are some that deal specifically with cardiac units and there are some that only deal with pediatric units. Inside of the specialized units there are there are different needs for the patients, some need more care than the others and this is were they are ranked- from most life threatening to least. The next part of discipline is being able to control activity. To do this you need to establish a pattern and have cycles of repetition. In order to have the desired repetition you need t completely breakdown the gestures and the manipulation of the tasks at hand. You need to define every detail of the task. We have something similar to this in gymnastics. We do and exhibition where everything need to be perfectly times and everyones movem...
