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Year

CAT 2018

Section

Verbal

Topic

Para Summary

Difficulty

Easy

Question

Slot-1

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position

Production and legitimation of scientific knowledge can be approached from a number of perspectives. To study knowledge production from the sociology of professions perspective would mean a focus on the institutionalization of a body of knowledge. The professions-approach informed earlier research on managerial occupation, business schools and management knowledge. It however tends to reify institutional power structures in its understanding of the links between knowledge and authority. Knowledge production is restricted in the perspective to the selected members of the professional community, most notably to the university faculties and professional colleges. Power is understood as a negative mechanism, which prevents the nonprofessional actors from offering their ideas and information as legitimate knowledge.

The study of knowledge production can be done through many perspectives.

The professions-approach has been one of the most relied upon perspective in the study of management knowledge production.

Professions-approach aims at the institutionalisation of knowledge but restricts knowledge production as a function of a select few.

Professions-approach focuses on the creation of institutions of higher education and disciplines to promote knowledge production

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