Chapter 10: Post Structuralism

Question 1

Foucaults Discourse Analysis:

Answer 1

a methodological approach used to examine how language and communication shape knowledge, power, and social practices within specific historical and cultural contexts. Foucault’s discourse analysis emphasizes the ways in which discourses produce and regulate social reality, shaping individual subjectivities, identities, and social relations

“Professionals” legitimate & sustain authoritative definitions of situations:They control what knowledge is to be disseminated throughout society.
Our daily, normal discourse reflects that power (how we think, talk, behave). This is how society’s relations of ruling work.

Utilize the language of science to justify its demands for compliance.

Question 2

Knowledge workers/Knowledge Experts

Answer 2

Science? Authority?

Question 3

How power/dominance are invisible:

Answer 3

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