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2.3.2.03 In Model B in Graphic 2e three areas of discontinuities are marked as ‘i’, ‘ii’
and ‘iii’. These are again not definitive and correspond as follows:
i. Discontinuity ‘i’ is where the presumed knowledge is currently external to the
discipline but included in the savoir knowledge of the practitioner.
ii. Discontinuity ‘ii’ is where the presumed knowledge is currently external to
both the discipline and the savoir knowledge of the practitioner but included in
the discourse. E.g. popular culture, media, non-practising intellectuals (e.g.
Peter Drucker in the case of entrepreneurship).
iii. Discontinuity ‘iii’ is where the presumed knowledge is sourced from another
discipline, having some compatibility with the discourse to which the original
discipline is attached.
The reaction of the discipline to discontinuities, as to whether they are accepted as
knowledge through the various episteme, is one possibility that may contribute to a
discipline being described as being dubious. The concept of dubious disciplines is
discussed in the next section.
2.3.3 Dubious disciplines – some scenarios
2.3.3.00 This section discusses the concept of dubious disciplines and looks at some
ramifications of disciplines being dubious.
2.3.3.01 According to Foucault [in Dreyfus and Rabinow, 1983] there are disciplines
that have passed the threshold of scientificity and there are others that are on the threshold
and there are ot hers that may not yet have passed this threshold. Seeming ly not all
disciplines are necessarily created equal, nor maintain this equality; some are more equal
tha n ot hers.
2.3.3.02 In a 1977 interview, Foucault used the term ‘dubious’ to describe a form of
savoir knowledge like psychiatry “since the epistemological profile of psychiatry is a low
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