Unpack and explain Foucault’s methodological tools. Apply them to an area in your life or issue in our society that you feel illustrates a relationship between power and knowledge.
What will be an ideal response?
As Foucault uses the term, “archaeology” is a historical method whereby discursive practices are “unearthed” much like the artifacts of past civilizations. This makes it possible to expose the evolution or history of human understanding. By excavating forms of discourse, the knowledge that is embedded in them can be revealed along with the means by which humans have come to construct particular meanings about reality and themselves. For Foucault, genealogy is a method of sociohistorical analysis of the impact of power on discourse. Unlike archaeology, which seeks to examine the role of discourse in the production of knowledge, genealogy articulates the dependence of the production of knowledge on relationships of power. He contends that it is not the acquisition of knowledge that gives one power. Instead, knowledge is already always deeply invested with power in such a way that it must be said that “power is knowledge.”
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. gender b. race c. age d. socioeconomic status
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a. decreased dramatically. b. decreased slightly. c. increased by 31%. d. increased by 82%.
Pragmatists claim _____. Select all, but only those that apply.
a. individuals mostly remember things that are useful to them b. reality cannot exist in our minds, it is “out there” or external to individuals c. people define social and physical objects in useful ways d. actors can only be understood through their actions