Question: The passage given below is followed by four 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 non-professional actors from offering their ideas and information as legitimate knowledge.
Option 1 is incorrect as it states the production of scientific knowledge and not knowledge in general. Option 2 is incorrect as the fourth and fifth sentences of the passage talks about the limitation of the professions-approach. Thus the professions-approach cannot be the most relied upon perspective. Negate option 2. Option 3 correctly captures all the main points of the paragraph. Retain it. Option 4 is beyond the scope of the paragraph.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.