Structures of Power
Author | : John J. Schwarzmantel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John J. Schwarzmantel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Floyd Hunter |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469616947 |
In this study of busy, complex Regional City -- and it is a real city -- the author has analyzed the power structure from top to bottom. He has searched out the men of power and, under fictitious names, has described them as they initiate policies in their offices, their homes, their clubs. They form a small, stable group at the top of the social structure. Their decision-making activities are not known to the public, but they are responsible for whatever is done, or not done, in their community. Beneath this top policy group is a clearly marked social stratification, through which decisions sift down to the substructures chosen to put them into effect. The dynamic relations within the power structure are made clear in charts, but the real interest lies in the author's report of what people themselves say. The African American community is also studied, with its own power structure and its own complicated relations with the large community. The method of study is fully described in an Appendix. The book should be of particular value to sociologists, political scientists, city-planning executives, Community Council members, social workers, teachers, and research workers in related fields. As a vigorous and readable presentation of facts, it should appeal to the reader who would like to know how his/her own community is run. Community Power Structure is not an expose. It is a description and discussion of a social phenomenon as it occured. It is based on sound field research, including personal observation and interviews by the author.
Author | : Dave Elder-Vass |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2010-06-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139488198 |
The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over 100 years. This book offers a solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups of people that have social structural power. Some of these groups are entities with emergent causal powers, distinct from those of human individuals. Yet these powers also depend on the contributions of human individuals, and this book examines the mechanisms through which interactions between human individuals generate the causal powers of some types of social structures. The Causal Power of Social Structures makes particularly important contributions to the theory of human agency and to our understanding of normative institutions.
Author | : Tony Williams |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000-08-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780791446447 |
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
Author | : Jeremy Heimans |
Publisher | : Random House Canada |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0345816463 |
From two influential and visionary thinkers comes a big idea that is changing the way movements catch fire and ideas spread in our highly connected world. For the vast majority of human history, power has been held by the few. "Old power" is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful spend it carefully, like currency. But the technological revolution of the past two decades has made possible a new form of power, one that operates differently, like a current. "New power" is made by many; it is open, participatory, often leaderless, and peer-driven. Like water or electricity, it is most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it, but to channel it. New power is behind the rise of participatory communities like Facebook and YouTube, sharing services like Uber and Airbnb, and rapid-fire social movements like Brexit and #BlackLivesMatter. It explains the unlikely success of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and the unlikelier victory of Donald Trump in 2016. And it gives ISIS its power to propagate its brand and distribute its violence. Even old power institutions like the Papacy, NASA, and LEGO have tapped into the strength of the crowd to stage improbable reinventions. In New Power, the business leaders/social visionaries Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms provide the tools for using new power to successfully spread an idea or lead a movement in the twenty-first century. Drawing on examples from business, politics, and social justice, they explain the new world we live in--a world where connectivity has made change shocking and swift and a world in which everyone expects to participate.
Author | : Craig Calhoun |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521365988 |
This book discusses the question: are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power?
Author | : Jennifer Nicoll Victor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1011 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190228210 |
Politics is intuitively about relationships, but until recently the network perspective has not been a dominant part of the methodological paradigm that political scientists use to study politics. This volume is a foundational statement about networks in the study of politics.
Author | : Jane McAlevey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019062471X |
"An examination of strategies for effective organizing"--
Author | : Blayne Haggart |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-06-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030145409 |
This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology, women’s and gender studies, and Science and Technology Studies, who consider how the control of knowledge is shaping our everyday lives. From “weaponised copyright” as a censorship tool, to the battle over control of the internet’s “guts,” to the effects of state surveillance at the Mexico–U.S. border, this book offers a coherent way to understand the nature of power in the twenty-first century.
Author | : C.WRIGHT MILLS |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |