Power: a Critical Reader

For courses in political sociology. Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to political sociologists. Readings address both classic issues in political sociology, as well as more recent developments such as globalization. The reader offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism and power structure theory.

Part I: Critical Theories of Power 1. The Fetishism of Commodities, Karl Marx 2. The New Forms of Control, Herbert Marcuse 3. Hegemony, Antonio Gramsci 4. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, George Lipsitz 5. Public Spaces, Private Lives, Anne Phillips 6. The Body of the Condemned, Michel Foucault Part II: State Theory 7. The State as Superstructure, Hal Draper 8. Defining the Class Dominance View, G. William Domhoff 9. Political Choice and the Multiple "Logics" of Capital, Fred Block 10. A Feminist Theory of the State, Mimi Abramovitz Part III: Electoral Politics 11. Does Voting Matter?, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward 12. How the Power Elite Dominate Government, G. William Domhoff 13. Follow the Money, Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, and Mark Weller 14. The Tyranny of the Majority, Lani Guinier Part IV: The Welfare State 15. Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward 16. Who Deserves Help? Who Must Provide?, Linda Gordon 17. Welfare Reform as Race Population Control, Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel A. Cazenave 18. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, GA A sta Esping-Andersen Part V: Media And Ideology 19. The Pacification of Everyday Life, Rob…