| Description |
xv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Power in Social Organization. 1. Problems in Defining Power / Dennis H. Wrong. 2. Power as a Societal Force / Amitai Etzioni. 3. Forms and Levels of Power Exertion / Marvin E. Olsen. 4. Power, Domination, and Legitimacy / Max Weber. 5. Power-Dependence Relations / Richard M. Emerson. 6. Power and Distributive Systems / Gerhard E. Lenski. 7. Power in Society as Resource and Problem / Robert S. Lynd -- Pt. 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Power. 8. The Materialistic Conception of History / Karl Marx. 9. Inventory of Marx's Ideas / C. Wright Mills. 10. The Materialist Interpretation of History / Robert L. Heilbroner. 11. The Iron Law of Oligarchy / Robert Michels. 12. The Ruling Elites / Kenneth Prewitt and Alan Stone. 13. Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans / Alexis de Tocqueville. 14. Sociopolitical Pluralism / Marvin E. Olsen -- Pt. 3. National Power Structures. 15. The Structure of Power in American Society / C. Wright Mills. 16. The American Power Structure / G. William Domhoff. 17. The Structure of a National Elite Network / Gwen Moore. 18. Elite Integration in Stable Democracies / John Higley, Ursula Hoffmann-Lange, Charles Kadushin and Gwen Moore. 19. The Structure of Intercorporate Unity in American Business / Beth Mintz and Michael Schwartz. 20. Upper-Class Power / Harold R. Kerbo. 21. The Mass Media as a Power Institution / Martin N. Marger -- Pt. 4. Power and the State. 22. Paradigms of Relations Between State and Society / Robert R. Alford. 23. Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State / David A. Gold, Clarence Y.H. Lo and Erik Olin Wright. 24. The State System and the State Elite / Ralph Miliband. 25. The Reification of the State / Alan Wolfe. 26. The Ruling Class Does Not Rule / Fred Block. 27. The Potential Autonomy of the State / Theda Skocpol. 28. The Autonomous Power of the State / Michael Mann |
| Analysis |
Power |
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Power |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: Power in societies. New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier-Macmillan, 1970 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences)
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| Author |
Marger, Martin N., 1939-
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Olsen, Marvin Elliott.
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| LC no. |
92028612 |
| ISBN |
0813312884 (alk. paper) |
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0813312892 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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