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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a. that the relationship between A and B is nonspurious. b. that the relationship between A and B is spurious. c. replication. d. that the relationship between A and B is nonspurious and replication took place. e. that the relationship between A and B is spurious and that replication took place.
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a. Below middle class income than above b. Are above middle class income than below c. Equally divided among high paying and low paying jobs d. None of the above
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a. he believed that there would inevitably be a class revolution in any capitalist society b. he believed that there would definitely not be a class revolution in any capitalist society c. he believed that there is a middle class that is distinct from the working class and whose skills are based on knowledge d. he believed that the middle class, rather than the working class, would overthrow the capitalist economic system