This work presents, elaborates, and illustrates what is arguably the
most important concept in the social sciences: power. It focuses
particularly on a major class of power phenomena, meta-power, that is,
power over power, transformative and structuring power. This
encompasses powers to establish, reform, and transform social systems
(institutions, power hierarchies, cultural formations, and
socio-technical and infrastructural systems). Understanding meta-power
is essential to the effective analysis of the formation of societal
structures, their dynamics and evolution. This collection presents
numerous illustrations and case studies at local, meso, and macro
levels, showing how meta-powering is mobilized and operates in
different contexts. The book should be of particular interest to
business and management researchers, anthropologists, historians,
legal scholars, political scientists, and, of course, sociologists.
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Impacts and Transformations of Agents, Institutions, and Social Systems-- Capitalism, State, and Democracy in a Global Context
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783653020618
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter