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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which statement best defines discourse in Michel Foucault's work?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucault treats discourse as a historically organized system of statements, rules and practices.
• A discourse helps produce the objects about which it speaks rather than merely naming pre-existing facts.
• Discourses operate through institutions, classifications and procedures of truth.
• Therefore, discourse is broader than private speech, vocabulary or literary style.
• A discourse helps produce the objects about which it speaks rather than merely naming pre-existing facts.
• Discourses operate through institutions, classifications and procedures of truth.
• Therefore, discourse is broader than private speech, vocabulary or literary style.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What is the central relationship between power and knowledge in Foucault's theory?
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Explanation:
• Foucault uses the expression power and knowledge to emphasize their mutual implication.
• Institutions and practices generate forms of knowledge, while those forms of knowledge support regulation and classification.
• Power is productive as well as restrictive.
• The theory therefore rejects a complete separation between power and knowledge.
• Institutions and practices generate forms of knowledge, while those forms of knowledge support regulation and classification.
• Power is productive as well as restrictive.
• The theory therefore rejects a complete separation between power and knowledge.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which method is most closely associated with Foucault's study of the historical rules governing what may count as knowledge?
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Explanation:
• Archaeology investigates the historical conditions and rules that make particular statements possible.
• It examines formations of discourse rather than tracing ideas back to a single author or origin.
• Foucault develops this method especially in The Archaeology of Knowledge.
• Phenomenology and New Criticism pursue different objects and methods.
• It examines formations of discourse rather than tracing ideas back to a single author or origin.
• Foucault develops this method especially in The Archaeology of Knowledge.
• Phenomenology and New Criticism pursue different objects and methods.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Foucault's genealogical method is primarily concerned with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Genealogy examines the contingent and conflictual emergence of practices, values and forms of subjectivity.
• It rejects the search for a pure, unified and timeless origin.
• The method attends to accidents, reversals, struggles and discontinuities.
• Foucault's genealogy is strongly influenced by Nietzsche.
• It rejects the search for a pure, unified and timeless origin.
• The method attends to accidents, reversals, struggles and discontinuities.
• Foucault's genealogy is strongly influenced by Nietzsche.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
In Foucault's usage, an episteme is best described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• An episteme is the historical a priori that shapes the conditions under which knowledge becomes possible in a given period.
• It organizes relations among different fields of knowledge without being a conscious theory held by individuals.
• Different historical periods may be governed by different epistemic configurations.
• The concept is developed prominently in The Order of Things.
• It organizes relations among different fields of knowledge without being a conscious theory held by individuals.
• Different historical periods may be governed by different epistemic configurations.
• The concept is developed prominently in The Order of Things.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What does Foucault mean by the archive?
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Explanation:
• For Foucault, the archive is not merely a physical repository of documents.
• It is the system that determines the appearance, circulation, persistence and transformation of statements.
• The archive defines what can be said within particular historical conditions.
• This concept belongs to his archaeological analysis of discourse.
• It is the system that determines the appearance, circulation, persistence and transformation of statements.
• The archive defines what can be said within particular historical conditions.
• This concept belongs to his archaeological analysis of discourse.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which statement best explains Foucault's author-function?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The author-function describes how an author's name classifies, circulates and regulates certain discourses.
• It is not identical with the empirical person who writes a text.
• Different societies and periods assign different functions to authorship.
• Foucault develops this argument in What Is an Author?
• It is not identical with the empirical person who writes a text.
• Different societies and periods assign different functions to authorship.
• Foucault develops this argument in What Is an Author?
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which work contains Foucault's influential discussion of discipline, surveillance and the modern prison?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Discipline and Punish examines the historical transformation from spectacular punishment to disciplinary power.
• It analyses prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals and other institutions.
• Surveillance, examination and normalization are central mechanisms in the book.
• The other works address different formations of knowledge and power.
• It analyses prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals and other institutions.
• Surveillance, examination and normalization are central mechanisms in the book.
• The other works address different formations of knowledge and power.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Panopticism derives its name from a prison design proposed by:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jeremy Bentham designed the Panopticon as a circular institutional structure organized around possible constant observation.
• Foucault uses it as a model for modern disciplinary power.
• The design induces individuals to regulate their own conduct because they cannot know when they are being watched.
• The other thinkers are important in political or legal philosophy but did not design the Panopticon.
• Foucault uses it as a model for modern disciplinary power.
• The design induces individuals to regulate their own conduct because they cannot know when they are being watched.
• The other thinkers are important in political or legal philosophy but did not design the Panopticon.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
What is the principal disciplinary effect of panoptic surveillance?
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Explanation:
• Panoptic surveillance functions through the possibility of being observed rather than through continuous visible force.
• Individuals internalize the gaze and begin to regulate themselves.
• This makes disciplinary power continuous, economical and productive.
• The model also permits the accumulation of detailed knowledge about individuals.
• Individuals internalize the gaze and begin to regulate themselves.
• This makes disciplinary power continuous, economical and productive.
• The model also permits the accumulation of detailed knowledge about individuals.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
In Foucauldian theory, normalization refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Normalization establishes standards and evaluates individuals in relation to them.
• Disciplinary institutions compare, rank, correct and classify conduct.
• The norm produces categories such as normal and abnormal.
• It therefore functions as a mechanism of power rather than as the absence of standards.
• Disciplinary institutions compare, rank, correct and classify conduct.
• The norm produces categories such as normal and abnormal.
• It therefore functions as a mechanism of power rather than as the absence of standards.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which disciplinary technique combines hierarchical observation and normalizing judgement?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The examination combines surveillance with normalizing judgement.
• It turns individuals into cases that can be documented, compared and assessed.
• Schools, hospitals and prisons use examinations to produce both knowledge and control.
• The other terms belong to different literary or philosophical contexts.
• It turns individuals into cases that can be documented, compared and assessed.
• Schools, hospitals and prisons use examinations to produce both knowledge and control.
• The other terms belong to different literary or philosophical contexts.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Foucault treats power as operating only through prohibition and censorship.
Statement II: Foucault argues that power can produce knowledge, norms and forms of subjectivity.
Statement I: Foucault treats power as operating only through prohibition and censorship.
Statement II: Foucault argues that power can produce knowledge, norms and forms of subjectivity.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because Foucault rejects a purely negative or repressive model of power.
• Statement II is correct because power produces categories, knowledge, disciplined bodies and subject positions.
• Power operates through everyday practices as well as through formal laws.
• Therefore, option D correctly evaluates the two statements.
• Statement II is correct because power produces categories, knowledge, disciplined bodies and subject positions.
• Power operates through everyday practices as well as through formal laws.
• Therefore, option D correctly evaluates the two statements.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: The Panopticon is important to Foucault as more than a particular prison design.
Reason: It provides a general model for the operation of disciplinary power through visible arrangements and unverifiable observation.
Reason: It provides a general model for the operation of disciplinary power through visible arrangements and unverifiable observation.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Foucault extends panopticism beyond the prison.
• The Reason is correct because the arrangement makes inmates permanently visible while the observer remains unverifiable.
• This asymmetry encourages self-regulation and can be adapted to schools, factories, hospitals and barracks.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the arrangement makes inmates permanently visible while the observer remains unverifiable.
• This asymmetry encourages self-regulation and can be adapted to schools, factories, hospitals and barracks.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Archaeology
2. Genealogy
3. Episteme
4. Author-function
List II
I. Historical conditions organizing knowledge
II. Rules of discursive formation
III. Institutional operation of an author's name
IV. Contingent emergence through struggles and discontinuities
List I
1. Archaeology
2. Genealogy
3. Episteme
4. Author-function
List II
I. Historical conditions organizing knowledge
II. Rules of discursive formation
III. Institutional operation of an author's name
IV. Contingent emergence through struggles and discontinuities
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Archaeology matches II because it studies the rules governing the formation of statements.
• Genealogy matches IV because it traces contingent emergence through struggles and discontinuities.
• Episteme matches I because it names the historical conditions organizing knowledge in a period.
• Author-function matches III because it concerns the institutional operation of an author's name.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-III.
• Genealogy matches IV because it traces contingent emergence through struggles and discontinuities.
• Episteme matches I because it names the historical conditions organizing knowledge in a period.
• Author-function matches III because it concerns the institutional operation of an author's name.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-III.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Normalization does not eliminate standards; it creates and applies them.
• Discipline aims to produce bodies that are both useful and subject to control.
• Surveillance organizes visibility as a mechanism of power.
• The examination combines observation, documentation and normalizing judgement.
• Discipline aims to produce bodies that are both useful and subject to control.
• Surveillance organizes visibility as a mechanism of power.
• The examination combines observation, documentation and normalizing judgement.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which statement best distinguishes archaeology from genealogy in Foucault's work?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Archaeology analyses the rules that govern the appearance and organization of statements.
• Genealogy adds a stronger emphasis on practices, struggles, bodies and power relations.
• Neither method seeks a pure origin or assumes continuous progress.
• The distinction is methodological rather than a literal contrast between ancient objects and family ancestry.
• Genealogy adds a stronger emphasis on practices, struggles, bodies and power relations.
• Neither method seeks a pure origin or assumes continuous progress.
• The distinction is methodological rather than a literal contrast between ancient objects and family ancestry.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Disciplinary power operates through detailed control of bodies and activities.
2. Panopticism depends on the certainty that the observer is always visibly present.
3. Normalization classifies individuals according to norms.
4. Institutions produce knowledge about the persons they regulate.
1. Disciplinary power operates through detailed control of bodies and activities.
2. Panopticism depends on the certainty that the observer is always visibly present.
3. Normalization classifies individuals according to norms.
4. Institutions produce knowledge about the persons they regulate.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because discipline regulates bodies, movements, time and conduct in detail.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because panopticism depends on unverifiable observation; the subject cannot know when observation occurs.
• Statement 3 is correct because normalization compares and ranks individuals according to standards.
• Statement 4 is correct because institutions generate records, classifications and expert knowledge.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because panopticism depends on unverifiable observation; the subject cannot know when observation occurs.
• Statement 3 is correct because normalization compares and ranks individuals according to standards.
• Statement 4 is correct because institutions generate records, classifications and expert knowledge.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A school ranks students, records their performance and corrects deviations from prescribed standards. Which Foucauldian mechanisms are most directly involved?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The school observes students through surveillance and records their conduct and performance.
• Examination converts observations into documented cases and comparable results.
• Normalization judges students against prescribed standards and corrects deviations.
• These mechanisms illustrate the operation of disciplinary power in educational institutions.
• Examination converts observations into documented cases and comparable results.
• Normalization judges students against prescribed standards and corrects deviations.
• These mechanisms illustrate the operation of disciplinary power in educational institutions.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
How does Foucault generally understand institutions such as prisons, hospitals and schools?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucault analyses institutions as sites where power and knowledge operate together.
• They observe, classify, document, train and normalize individuals.
• Their practices produce categories such as the delinquent, patient or successful student.
• This analysis does not require the claim that individual agency disappears completely.
• They observe, classify, document, train and normalize individuals.
• Their practices produce categories such as the delinquent, patient or successful student.
• This analysis does not require the claim that individual agency disappears completely.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which claim best represents Foucault's account of subject formation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucault studies how individuals become subjects through discourses, institutions and practices.
• Classification and discipline position people within categories and norms.
• Later work also examines practices through which individuals constitute themselves.
• Subjectivity is therefore historically formed rather than wholly pre-given.
• Classification and discipline position people within categories and norms.
• Later work also examines practices through which individuals constitute themselves.
• Subjectivity is therefore historically formed rather than wholly pre-given.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: In Foucauldian analysis, discourse does not merely represent objects that already exist independently.
Reason: Discursive rules help constitute objects, concepts and legitimate speaking positions.
Reason: Discursive rules help constitute objects, concepts and legitimate speaking positions.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because discourse participates in forming the objects it claims to describe.
• The Reason is correct because discursive rules organize concepts, categories and positions from which statements can be made.
• This constitutive role distinguishes discourse from a neutral mirror of reality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because discursive rules organize concepts, categories and positions from which statements can be made.
• This constitutive role distinguishes discourse from a neutral mirror of reality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of the first French publication of the following works?
1. The Order of Things
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
3. Discipline and Punish
4. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
1. The Order of Things
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
3. Discipline and Punish
4. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Order of Things was published in French in 1966.
• The Archaeology of Knowledge followed in 1969.
• Discipline and Punish appeared in 1975.
• The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 appeared in 1976.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• The Archaeology of Knowledge followed in 1969.
• Discipline and Punish appeared in 1975.
• The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 appeared in 1976.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A critic studies how a colonial novel defines the sane, civilized subject by contrasting it with figures labelled irrational, primitive and deviant. Which approach is most clearly Foucauldian?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A Foucauldian reading asks how discourse produces categories such as civilized, primitive, rational and deviant.
• It examines who is authorized to speak and which institutions or knowledges support those classifications.
• The analysis also identifies exclusions that help constitute the supposedly normal subject.
• It therefore treats the categories as historical effects rather than natural truths.
• It examines who is authorized to speak and which institutions or knowledges support those classifications.
• The analysis also identifies exclusions that help constitute the supposedly normal subject.
• It therefore treats the categories as historical effects rather than natural truths.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes Foucauldian textual analysis?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucauldian textual analysis situates texts within historically specific discursive formations.
• It asks how statements construct knowledge, authorize speakers and classify subjects.
• It also investigates the institutional practices and power relations connected with those statements.
• The method therefore goes beyond isolated grammar, authorial intention or a timeless hidden structure.
• It asks how statements construct knowledge, authorize speakers and classify subjects.
• It also investigates the institutional practices and power relations connected with those statements.
• The method therefore goes beyond isolated grammar, authorial intention or a timeless hidden structure.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A system of statements and practices that produces objects of knowledge సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Knowledge is produced within power relations and also helps organize them సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Archaeology సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Tracing contingent struggles, discontinuities and relations of force సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. The underlying historical conditions that organize knowledge in a period సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. The general system governing the formation and transformation of statements సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. It describes the cultural and institutional operations attached to an author's name సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Discipline and Punish సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Jeremy Bentham సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. It induces subjects to internalize the possibility of observation సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. The comparison and correction of individuals according to established norms సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. The examination సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. 1-II, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-III సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. Normalization — elimination of all standards సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Archaeology studies rules of discursive formation, while genealogy studies their contingent emergence within power relations సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. Surveillance, examination and normalization సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. As networks in which power, knowledge, observation and classification interact సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Subjects are formed through practices of classification, discipline and self-relation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Analysing discourse, exclusion and the production of subject positions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. It examines how texts participate in discourses, institutions, power relations and subject formation సమాధానం: D.