ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Foucault and his analytic integration of knowledge, power and subjects. This involves key examples from his most well-known analyses of power, which are responsible for his impact on contemporary sociology. The chapter describes key concepts in Bourdieu's theory about forms of capital, social fields, habitus and class. Foucault's analysis takes its point of departure in the history of the modern prison, but his study has a broader agenda. Foucault engages most directly with the concept of power, whereas Bourdieu undoubtedly addresses the chapter's second thematic, stratification, more. The chapter shows how two of the foremost representatives of modern French sociology coin new concepts in order to understand power and stratification in a more nuanced way than classic sociology. The idea is to show how disciplinary power relations spread and become integrated into all the core institutions of a modern society from schools and workplaces to hospitals, urban centres and the military.
