Discussion
"Power is intimately linked to knowledge." Who said this ?
Answer: C
The statement is Foucault's.
Michel Foucault argued in Discipline and Punish (1975) and in the essays collected as Power/Knowledge (1980) that power and knowledge directly imply one another. There is no power relation without a field of knowledge that goes with it, and no knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute power relations. Medicine, psychiatry and criminology, for example, both produce knowledge about people and give the means to classify, discipline and control them.
Bourdieu is known for habitus, field and forms of capital, Giddens for structuration theory and reflexive modernity, and Ulrich Beck for the risk society. None of them is the author of the power/knowledge thesis.
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