Disciplinary institutions (
French: institution disciplinaire) is a
concept proposed by
Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish (1975).
School,
prison,
barracks, or the
hospital are examples of historical disciplinary
institutions, all created in their modern form in the 19th century with the
Industrial Revolution. Discipline "cannot be identified with any one institution or apparatus,"
Deleuze explains, "precisely because it is a type of
power, a technology, that traverses every kind of apparatus or institution, linking them, prolonging them, and making them converge and function in a new way."[1]