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From how we behave to how we present ourselves, nearly everything we do is socially regulated. Society is responsible for telling us what 'is' acceptable behaviour, and what isn't.
For example, from brushing our teeth three times a day to women shaving their legs, majority of our behaviour comes from standards set by our society.

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Michael Foucalt's post-structuralism theory on knowledge and power.

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Michael Foucalt's post-structuralism theory on knowledge and power.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozWnquxkjIA&feature=youtu.be

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A short video explaining Foucault's post-structuralism theory.

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Foucault's theory is based upon the Panopticon structure. The theory is based on the fact that a guard COULD potentially be watching the prisoners at all times. The prisoners are punished if they misbehave.
As such, their behaviour adjusts so that they cannot be punished, regardless of whether they are being watched or not.
As such, the Panopticon serves as a basis for social regulation of society (conforming to a set of rules and regulations so that it becomes habit).

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Excerpt from 'Body Studies: The Basics' by Locks & Richardson

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Excerpt from 'Body Studies: The Basics' by Locks & Richardson

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Chapter two: Conformity or Resistance?
https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.une.edu.au/lib/une/reader.action?docID=1753259&ppg=29

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Goffman is a pioneer in social theory and social regulation.

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Goffman is credited for making significant contributions to the field of sociology. He is considered a pioneer of micro-sociology, or the close examination of the social interactions that compose everyday life. Through this type of work, Goffman presented evidence and theory for the social construction of the self as it is presented to and managed for others, created the concept of framing and the perspective of frame analysis, and set the foundation for the study of impression management.

In addition, through his study of social interaction, Goffman made a lasting mark on how sociologists understand and study stigma and how it affects the lives of people who experience it. His studies also laid the groundwork for the study of strategic interaction within game theory and laid the foundation for the method and subfield of conversation analysis.

Erving Goffman was born June 11, 1922, in Alberta, Canada. His parents, Max and Anne Goffman, were Ukrainian Jews and had emigrated to Canada prior to his birth. After his parents moved to Manitoba, Goffman attended St. John's Technical High School in Winnipeg and in 1939 he began his university studies in chemistry at the University of Manitoba. Goffman would later switch to studying sociology at the University of Toronto and completed his B.A. in 1945.

His first major study, for his doctoral dissertation, was an account of everyday social interaction and rituals on Unset, an island among the Shetland Islands chain in Scotland ( Communication Conduct in an Island Community, 1953).

Goffman married Angelica Choate in 1952 and a year later the couple had a son, Thomas. Sadly, Angelica committed suicide in 1964 after suffering from mental illness.

Following the completion of his Ph.D. and his marriage, Goffman took a job at the National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, MD. There, he conducted participant observation research for what would be his second book, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, published in 1961.

In 1961, Goffman published the book Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates in which he examined the nature and effects of being hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. He described how this process of institutionalization socializes people into the role of a good patient (i.e. someone dull, harmless and inconspicuous), which in turn reinforces the notion that severe mental illness is a chronic state.

Goffman's first book, published in 1956, and arguably his most widely taught and famous work, is titled The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Drawing on his research in the Shetland Islands, it is in this book that Goffman laid out his dramaturgical approach to studying the minutiae of everyday face-to-face interaction. He used the imagery of the theater to portray the importance of human and social action. All actions, he argued, are social performances that aim to give and maintain certain desired impressions of oneself to others. In social interactions, humans are actors on a stage playing a performance for an audience. The only time that individuals can be themselves and get rid of their role or identity in society is backstage where no audience is present.

Goffman took a faculty position in the department of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley in 1958. In 1962 he was promoted to full professor. A few years later, in 1968, he was appointed the Benjamin Franklin Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience is another of Goffman's well-known books, published in 1974. Frame analysis is the study of the organization of social experiences and so with his book, Goffman wrote about how conceptual frames structure an individual's perception of society. He used the concept of a picture frame to illustrate this concept. The frame, he described, represents structure and is used to hold together an individual's context of what they are experiencing in their life, represented by a picture.

In 1981 Goffman married Gillian Sankoff, a sociolinguist. Together the two had a daughter, Alice, who was born in 1982. Sadly, Goffman died of stomach cancer that same year. Today, Alice Goffman is a notable sociologist in her own right.

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1977-78)

Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Second on Social Psychology, American Sociological Association (1979)

73rd President of the American Sociological Association (1981-82)

Mead Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1983)

6th most cited author in humanities and social sciences in 2007

Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction (1961)

Behavior in Public Places (1963)

Interaction Ritual (1967)

Gender Advertisements (1976)

Forms of Talk (1981)

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The Life and Works of Famed Sociologist Erving Goffman

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Goffman is credited for making significant contributions to the field of sociology. He is considered a pioneer of micro-sociology, or the close examination of the social interactions that compose everyday life.

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DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS: The world is a stage and we are the 'actors'.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT:
:- we seek to control the impression others form of us by changing or appearance and behaviour
:- Ie: the person we are interacting WITH is likewise attempting to do the same

INTERACTION ORDER:
:- social interaction built on the maintenance of face- avoiding disruption to the interactional order is KEY.

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It influences what we do with our own bodies, how we present ourselves, and how we read 'social messages' from other bodies.

For example: a person dressed casually in jeans and a t-shirt may be seen as more 'inviting' than somebody dressed eccentrically and not according to what is considered 'normal'.

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Everything we do, whether it is our appearance, our behaviour, or our relations with others, is socially constructed. The society we are born in is responsible for informing us what is and isn't acceptable behaviour. For example, we know as a general rule that stealing is an unacceptable behaviour, because there is a negative consequence for doing so.

Michael Foucault's Post-Structuralism Theory serves as a basis for many sociological theories. Foucault's theory relies on knowledge, one's perception of reality, and one changing their conduct of behaviour based upon that knowledge. Foucault uses the Panopticon prison concept as a basis for this theory. The prison was circular in nature, and feature a tower in the middle. Prisoners adjusted their behaviour when they knew they were being watched, for fear of being punished. When the Panopticon was introduced, the prisoners were under the impression that they were always being watched (irrespective of whether they were or not).As a result, they constantly adjusted their behaviour so they would not be punished for it.
This theory still applies to society today. In a world so intertwined with technology, our behaviour is criticised and watched almost at every moment. Our behaviour is, as a result, influenced by this. We are less likely to wear clothing with offensive slogans (such as swastikas or racist slogans) because we are likely to generate a negative reaction from this.

Body idioms are another critical element of social regulation of the body. Less extreme examples of regulation include everyday habits such as cleaning one's teeth three times a day, or women shaving their legs, and so on.
As such, it is clear that our bodies are socially regulated, whether we are aware of it or not.