Theorizing power

by Hearn, Jonathan

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Full title :Theorizing power / by Jonathan Hearn.

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 251 p. : : ill. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230246560, 0230246567, 9780230246577, 0230246575
oclc:ocn813238257
LC Classification:HN49.P6
Dewey Decimal:303.3

Part I. Conceptualizing power: -- 1. Introducing key issues: -- Introduction -- Physical versus social power -- Power 'to' versus power 'over' -- Asymmetrical versus balanced power -- Power as structures versus agents -- Actual versus potential power -- Conclusion -- 2. Meet the family- domination, authority and legitimacy: -- Introduction -- The 'dominant' academic discourse on power -- Bringing authority and legitimacy back in -- Max Weber's complicated legacy -- Recapitulation -- Part II. Theorizing power: -- 3. European sources: -- Introduction -- Early modern harbingers: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Theorists of modernity: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- Return to Italy: classical elitism and Gramsci -- Conclusion -- 4. American debates: -- Introduction -- Power: community structures and national elites -- The power of positive function -- Power hides its face -- Conclusion -- 5. Epistemological approaches: -- Introduction -- Barnes: self-fulfulling prophecies -- Foucault: power/knowledge -- Actor-networks, 'realrationalität!' and the ghost of Machiavelli -- Bourdieu: the practice histories -- On language and culture -- Conclusion -- 6. Evolutionary approaches: -- Introduction -- En…