Discussion
M. Foucault refers to governmentality as .................... .
Answer: A
The key's answer is broad acceptance of dominant norms.
For Michel Foucault, governmentality is the 'conduct of conduct': the techniques and rationalities through which populations are governed not mainly by force or law but by shaping how people think and behave, so that they come to regulate themselves according to dominant norms of health, productivity and normality. Governing works through the willing adoption of these norms by the governed.
Totalitarian mentality and dictatorship describe coercive rule, which is the opposite of the dispersed, self-regulating power Foucault meant. 'Power through knowledge' recalls his separate idea of power/knowledge; governmentality uses such knowledge, but the question asks what governmentality refers to, and the key takes the normalising effect on conduct.
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