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Introduction, Opening Discussion
- How is power defined? Is it possible to use a single definition of power to describe a variety of social situations?
- How do people get and use power?
- How much power is lodged within personality and how much is part of the structure of the situation?
- How does the use of power sometimes mystify the targets so that they do not recognize that power is being exerted?
- Can power be equalized, or must some people always have more?
- What is resistance? How might we identify resistance in situations of institutionalized power? |
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| I. Defining the Concept of Power: A Preliminary Analysis |
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What is Power? Action and Intention |
Gouldner, Alvin. "Basic Assumptions." The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1971, pp. 52-54. ISBN: 0465012787.
Simmel, Georg. "On Superordination and Subordination." The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Edited and translated by Kurt H. Wolff. New York, NY: Free Press, pp. 181-189. ISBN: 0029289203.
Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 1560008229. |
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What Power is Not: Influence and Conformity |
Film: "Obedience and Conformity."
Asch, Solomon. "Effects of Group Pressure upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgements." In Doing Unto Others. Edited by Zick Rubin. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN: 0132175967.
Stanley, Milgram. "Behavioral study of obedience." J Abnormal Soc Psychol 67 (1963): 371-8.
Janis, Irving. "Groupthink Among Policy Makers." In Sanctions for Evil. Edited by Nevitt Sanford, Craig Comstock and associates. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1971. ISBN: 0875890776.
Zimbardo, Philip, Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and David Jaffe. "The Psychology of Imprisonment." In Theory and Research in Abnormal Psychology. Edited by D. Rosenhan, and P. London. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975, pp. 271-287. ISBN: 0030745608. |
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Force: The Limiting Case |
Goffman, Erving. Asylums. Garden City, NY: Anchor books, 1961. ISBN: 0385000162.
Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 21-34. ISBN: 1560008229. |
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Leadership and Charisma: Personal and Inspirational Power |
Film: Riefenstahl, Leni. The Triumph of the Will, 1935.
Rustow, Dankwart A. "The Study of Leadership." In Philosophers and Kings: Studies in Leadership. Edited by Dankwart A. Rustow. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1970, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 0807605395.
Tucker, Robert C. "The Theory of Charismatic Leadership." In Philosophers and Kings: Studies in Leadership. Edited by Dankwart A. Rustow. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1970, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 0807605395.
Weber, Max. "Charisma." In On Charisma and Institution Building. Edited by S. N. Eisenstadt. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1968. |
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Authority (1): The Ability to Command |
Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 35-83. ISBN: 1560008229. |
| II. The Sources, Structure and Institutionalization of Power |
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Some Classical Views |
Denby, David. "Aristotle." Great Books. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 117-127. ISBN: 0684809753.
———. "Machiavelli." Great Books. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 194-201. ISBN: 0684809753.
———. "Hobbes and Locke." Great Books. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 206-220. ISBN: 0684809753.
———. "Marx." "Hobbes and Locke." Great Books. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 338-352. ISBN: 0684809753.
Machiavelli, Niccolo. "How a Prince Must Act In Order to Gain Reputation." The Prince. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1999, pp. 110-113. ISBN: 0451527461.
Hobbes, Thomas. The Leviathan. pp. 344-261.
Pareto, Vilfredo. "The Circulation of Elites."
Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. The Communist Manifesto. New York, NY: Penguin, 2002. ISBN: 0140447571.
———. "Preface." A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. New York, NY: International Publishers, 1970. ISBN: 0717800415.
Rius. Marx for Beginners. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1979. ISBN: 0394737164.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. "That Aristocracy May be Engendered by Manufactures." Democracy in America. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2001. ISBN: 0451528123.
Michels, Robert. "Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy." Political Parties. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 0765804697.
Weber, Max. "Class, Status and Party," and "Three Types of Legitimate Rule." Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York, NY: Free Press, 1964. ISBN: 0684836408.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1980, pp. 3-13, 17-35, and 92-114. ISBN: 0394740262. |
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Modern Debates |
Bachrach, Peter, and Morton Baratz. "Two Faces of Power." Power and Poverty; Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Lukes, Steven. Power: A Radical View. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 0333420926. |
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Authority (2): Power Redefined, Institutionalized, and Disciplined |
Foucault, Michel. "Truth and Power." In Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Edited by Colin Gordon. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1980. ISBN: 039473954X.
Peller, Gary. "Reason and the Mob: The Politics of Representation." Tikkun Magazine 2, no. 3 (1987): 28-31, and 92-95.
Scott, Joan Wallace. "The Pitfalls of 'Scientific' Feminism." Tikkun Magazine 4, no. 2 (March 1989): 90-91.
Fallows, James. "The Case Against Credentialism." The Atlantic Monthly (December 1985): 49-67. |
| III. Institutionalized Power: Examples and Transformations |
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Bureaucratic Organizations and Entrepreneurial Corporations |
Herzfeld. The Social Production of Indifference. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 0226329089. |
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Modernity, Post-modern Colonialism, and The Global Community |
Silbey, Susan. "Let Them Eat Cake." Law and Society Review 31, no. 2 (1997): 207-236.
Sasson, Saskia. The Global City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 3-34. ISBN: 0691078661.
Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN: 0140092331. (Excerpts)
Middens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 0804717621. (Excerpts) |
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The Possibilities of Resistance |
Ewick, and Silbey. "Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Law." American Journal of Sociology 108, no. 6 (May 2003): 1328-72. |
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Powersharing
Can Power be Distributed Equally? |
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