As such, it is interesting to note that the role of the individual helps to shape the role of the government of collective individuals, which ideally function in a co-existence that expresses a level of dependence upon one another. Further examination of that relationship elucidates in what regards the individual can actually influence the overall conception of government used in the traditional sense to rule the forms of actions of a particular nation-state or city. The additional responsibility placed upon a single subject in the form of "self-care," should ideally lead to a reduction of governmental programs (such as welfare or municipal and state systems of security) that regulate or augment such processes for individuals. On a basic level, however, Foucalt has determined that the roles in which people play throughout their lives are largely determined by a number of key influential factors, two of the foremost of which are known as domination and the techniques of self. Due to the fact that there...

Such forms of coercion and domination account for individuals assuming roles that they might not otherwise take on.
Works Cited

Foucalt, Michael. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. New York: The New Press. 1998. Print.