The works of Michel Foucault are grounded heavily on genealogical process in which it illustrates a certain degree of historical studies, not merely to tell the origin of the issue and its transformation over time but to offer a new perspective. An innovative way of looking at things, unlike other philosophical schools of thought, which gives such prescription on doing things, Foucault's work offers a technique, a method that deals with specific problems posed by techniques of thinking. He does not convey historical matter, rather he demonstrates a way of reflecting people's lives; a way of going about our environments so that we might understand our present environments. It is a process of going backwards in order to overcome questions, obstacles and other issues that may arise in the future. Foucault uses genealogy as an instrument to understand our everyday struggles in life.
Discipline and Punish.
In his book Discipline and Punish, Foucault discusses the nature of modern power and its ramifications in our world today. Michel views that power operates quite differently in disciplinary system which creates institutions and identities. Another position that he took is that justice and law tend to serve the interests of class, that there is a certain degree of dissymmetry that can be found in the exercise of governmentality. On the first position, disciplinary system took the image of the body, "the body as object and target of power. It is easy enough to find signs of the attention then paid to the body- to the body that is manipulated, shaped and trained, which obeys, responds, becomes skillful and increases its forces." The methods used made possible the thorough control of the body and its operations that accompanies it. It is imposed upon this body the docility as well as its utility or its usefulness, "A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed and improved.