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SSC Sociology QUESTION #1672
Question 1
Michel Foucault's concept of 'biopower' describes a historically specific modern form of power that operates not primarily through repression or juridical prohibition, but through which distinctive mechanism?
  • The control and regulation of entire populations through disciplinary techniques, normalization, and the administration of biological life itself✔️
  • The cultural shaping of biological traits through evolutionary selection pressure
  • The democratization and dispersal of knowledge to previously excluded populations
  • The reduction of human behavior to its biological and genetic determinants
Correct Answer Explanation
Foucault developed the concept of biopower in 'The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1' (1976) and 'Discipline and Punish' (1975) to describe modern power's focus on the management of life — both the disciplining of individual bodies (anatomo-politics) and the regulation of populations through statistics, public health, demography, and surveillance (biopolitics).