Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order         'The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogenous effects of power.' Panopticism is a style of controlling the individual and making him conform to the system. That system could refer to the police or the world as a whole. There is never a definite top position, therefore, everyone feels as if they are being monitored by someone else. It …showed first 75 words of 1788 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1788 total…Panopticon is a multi-functional form of organization. It serves as a distribution of power that provides, produces, and protects the individuals contained within its' limits. It includes institutions such as a hospital, schoolhouse, government, or even a prison. One might feel that each of these organizations have different objectives. Panopticism shows that all of these forms of order have a unified purpose, to benefit any individual in society and help society by bettering that individual.