Haugaard The four dimensions of power

Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1038-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Social and Political Power

This is an original account of social/political power, which builds upon cutting edge social theory, including Steven Lukes and Michel Foucault. The book develops a four-dimensional model, in an accessible style with vivid examples. It is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and activist who wish to understand power and conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haugaard, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Conceptions of power and an overview
1 The first dimension of power: Violence, coercion and authority
2 The second dimension of power: Conflicts over structures or deep conflict, and dominant ideology
3 The first and second dimensions of power contrasted: Deep versus shallow conflict and resistance
4 The third dimension of power: Practical consciousness knowledge, consciousness raising, the natural attitude and the social construction of reasonable/unreasonable
5 The third dimension continued: Conventions, reification, the sacred and essentialism
6 The third dimension continued: Descartes’ error, reification of truth and fallible truth
7 The fourth dimension of power: The making of the social subject
8 The fourth dimension continued: Social death through slavery, death-camps and solitary confinement
9 Normative analysis of the four dimensions of power: A pragmatist approach: what is power for?
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Über Autor(innen)

Haugaard Mark:
Mark Haugaard is Lecturer in Political Theory at the National University of Ireland, GalwayMark Haugaard is Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway