Research Catalog

Title

The meta-power paradigm : impacts and transformations of agents, institutions, and social systems : capitalism, state, and democracy in a global context / Tom R. Burns, Peter M. Hall, (eds.).

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Burns, Tom R.
• Hall, Peter M.

Description

554 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"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."--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Impacts and transformations of agents, institutions, and social systems: capitalism, state, and democracy in a global context

Subject

• Power (Social sciences)
• Political sociology
• Social systems > Growth

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Conceptualizing Power and Meta-power: Causalities, Mechanisms, and Constructions / Tom R. Burns, Peter M. Hall, Patrick W. McGinty -- Meta-power and Relational Control in Social Life / Tom Baumgartner, Walter Buckley, Tom R. Burns -- Interactions and the Study of Social Organization / Peter M. Hall -- Meta-power and the Structuring of International Economic Institutions and Exchange / Tom Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVille -- Meta-power and the Struggle over International Regimes: The Case of the Third World against Global Liberalism / Stephen D. Krasner -- The Exercise of Power to Transform Structures: Concepts, Principles, and Illustrations of Meta-powering / Tom R. Burns, Peter M. Hall -- Meta-Power, Social Organization, and the Shaping of Social Action / Peter M. Hall -- The Cultural Domain: Extensions and Applications of Meta-power and Structural Power / Peter M. Hall, Tom R. Burns, Nora Machado -- Societal Systems of Power and Meta-Power: Capitalism, State, and Democratic Arrangements / Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVille, Anne Marie Kolliokoski -- Meta-power, Staging Work, and Constructing a Religious Experience / Kevin McElmurry, Peter M. Hall -- The Lip Factory Conflict: Meta-Power and Game Transformation -- Lessons In Conflict Development and Conflict Resolution / Tom Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVille -- Social Organization across Space and Time: The Policy Process, Mesodomain Analysis, and Breadth of Perspective / Peter M. Hall, Patrick W. McGinty -- Meta-power and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia / Dusko Sekulic -- Behind the Scenes. The Security Council, the Right of Humanitarian Intervention, and Meta-Power / Hannes Peltonen -- The Meta-power of Interactions: Security and Commerce in Networked Environments / J.P. Singh -- Redefining Power in the Global Age: Eight Theses / Ulrich Beck -- The Sustainability Revolution: A Societal Paradigm Shift -- Ethos, Innovative Agents, Social Transformation / / Tom R. Burns.

ISBN

• 9783631616383
• 3631616384

OCLC

826868284

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library