The normalizing society combines disciplinary and regulatory norms, not just expanded discipline

Evidence

The norm ts something that can be applied to both a body one wishes to discipline and a population one wishes to regularize. The normalizing society 1s therefore not, under these conditions, a sort of generalized disciplinary society whose disciplinary institutions have swarmed and finally taken over everything—that, I think, is no more than a first and inadequate interpretation of a normalizing society. The normalizing society 1s a society in which the norm of discipline and the norm of regulation intersect along an orthogonal articulation. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 7234

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘normalizing society’ by distinguishing it from a merely swollen disciplinary society — the key conceptual correction for the scaffolding toolkit.
• XREF: Directly feeds the Foucault-based readings in Module 2 on biopower, governmentality, and how the norm replaces law as the instrument of power. — connects to: Statistical norms functioned as instruments of social normalization and control in the nineteenth century. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 375