What Did Foucault Mean by the Term Power-Knowledge

question 39

Multiple Choice

What did Foucault mean by the term power-knowledge?

• A) The structures of power shape both what we take to be knowledge and what knowledge we seek out.
• B) Science and technology are situated outside of the hierarchies of human institutions.
• C) Humans and technology act on the other.
• D) All of the above.

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Definitions:

Int

A primitive data type in Java and many other programming languages that represents an integer, a numerical value without a fractional component.

Double Quantity

A term not clearly defined but likely refers to a data type in programming used to store double-precision floating point numbers.

Variable

A symbolic name associated with a value and whose associated value can be changed.

Assignment Operator

In programming, an operator that assigns a value to a variable, typically represented as '=' in many languages.