“’Knowledge is power’ is perhaps a truer statement than we often realize… Like power, knowledge depends on that agreement of a significant group of people and establishes itself more firmly as their organization grows. And when that organization is of professionals whose knowledge is itself high in the hierarchy, power takes on the further mantle of authority. In such organizations, it is not at all surprising that the articulated hierarchy of ‘kinds’ of people is also replicated. All you need do here is picture a room full of elementary school teachers, and another full of professors of physics. Which group is composed of representatives of the top of the gender/race hierarchy? And yet we are supposed to believe that science is of all fields the most disinterested, neutral, nonpolitical” (161).

-- Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck. 1990. "Partial Knowledge,’ in Transforming Knowledge. Philadelphia: Temple University Press:147-176.