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Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life
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Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life Hardcover - 2000

by William G. Staples


From the publisher

A second edition of this textbook is now available. This book highlights 'mundane' practices that increasingly influence our schools, homes and communities; cameras, Opagers', electronic monitoring instruments, the digital Opaper trailO of OcashlessO transactions, random drug testing, and Ointegrity testsO. The author journeys back and forth between the justice system and the everyday life of the postmodern to illustrate how the lines between these two spheres of social life are increasingly blurred by the use of new surveillance technologies. Taken together, these surveillance rituals constitute the building blocks of a rapidly emerging society of discipline, one increasingly stripped of personal privacy, individual trust, and a viable public life that supports and maintains democratic values and practices.

Details

  • Title Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life
  • Author William G. Staples
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 191
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Date November 15, 2000
  • ISBN 9780742500778 / 0742500772
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.22 x 0.65 in (22.81 x 15.80 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social conditions - 1980-, Social control - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00040299
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.330

About the author

Bill Staples is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas.