ABSTRACT
This chapter explicitly discusses the connection among the social dependencies, surveillance, and power; setting the stage for how it would impact the theory and practices of public administration, especially how one can understand what it means to be an other or an outsider in the monograph. It focuses on surveillance and how it impacts and influences ideas within social theory. One of the simplest ways to think about surveillance and social theory is to consider the notion of panopticism. The establishment of a self-regulating, self-reinforcing system where the people take on their own surveillance roles allows the introduction of others and othering. The chapter outlines the basics of power, of surveillance, and how they interact to either make people members or part of an in-group or an out-group, it becomes paramount to start thinking about the question of tolerance and its associated practices.
