Disciplinary institutions

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Disciplinary institutions (French Institution disciplinaire) is a concept proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish (1975).

Disciplinary institutions are specific to a group of "technologies" called by Foucault "disciplines". School, prison, barracks or the hospital are such examples of historical disciplinary institutions, all created in their modern form in the 19th century with the Industrial Revolution.

This Foucauldian concept may be related to the concept of "total institution" proposed by Erving Goffman in 1961, as well as to Louis Althusser's Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA).