in the nation you scored compared to peers. This allows you to be specified as either above average, average, or below average. When you apply to college the see these percentiles and they classify you, and determine if they want you to go to their school based on your score. Finally there is examination, and this requires constant updates. People become more individualized in this process. An example of this is in my one of my mothers classes back in high school, her teacher would arrange the class after every test according to what they made on the test, the people that got the highest score were put in the front of the class and in the back row were the one who did the most poorly. In seating according to grades, this gave the teacher more power in the class, and the students were subjecting to testing to see how fit they were. The implications of living in a disciplinary society are that you constantly being put on under observations and surveillance. You are singled out and you know exactly your place in society, and you could feel that you could never change your status. An extreme case is in the book 1984, where Big Brother controls everyone and everything you do. You are always under constant surveillance: at work, home, Big Brother is everywhere. The disciplinary society run very differently than sovereign society, which is was in place before the 16th century. In the old society the common man was not important at all. The people that you saw leading up society were the nobles and aristocrats. They were the only ones with identity. Everyone else that was a peasant or common was forgotten. The only way these commoners got any attention was if they became unruly and got out of hand. They gained their identity by there punishment. Theses rebels gained their identity because usually crimes against the state and the regime and they later became executed for the crimes. Therefore if you were outside the scope of th...
