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Title

Power in modern societies / edited by Marvin E. Olsen & Martin N. Marger.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Olsen, Marvin Elliott.
• Marger, Martin N., 1939-

Description

xv, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Power (Social sciences)
• Gesellschaft
• Macht
• Politische Soziologie
• Machtstruktur
• Machttheorie
• Staat
• Macht
• Sociologie politique
• Pouvoir (sciences sociales)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface -- Credits -- pt. I Power in Social Organization (starting p. 1) -- 1 Problems in Defining Power (starting p. 9) / Dennis H. Wrong -- 2 Power as a Societal Force (starting p. 18) / Amitai Etzioni -- 3 Forms and Levels of Power Exertion (starting p. 29) / Marvin E. Olsen -- 4 Power, Domination, and Legitimacy (starting p. 37) / Max Weber -- 5 Power-Dependence Relations (starting p. 48) / Richard M. Emerson -- 6 Power and Distributive Systems (starting p. 59) / Gerhard E. Lenski -- 7 Power in Society as Resource and Problem (starting p. 68) / Robert S. Lynd -- pt. 2 Theoretical Perspectives on Power (starting p. 75) -- 8 The Materialistic Conception of History (starting p. 88) / Karl Marx -- 9 Inventory of Marx's Ideas (starting p. 90) / C. Wright Mills -- 10 The Materialist Interpretation of History (starting p. 101) / Robert L. Heilbroner -- 11 The Iron Law of Oligarchy (starting p. 111) / Robert Michels -- 12 The Ruling Elites (starting p. 125) / Kenneth Prewitt, Alan Stone -- 13 Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (starting p. 137) / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 14 Sociopolitical Pluralism (starting p. 146) / Marvin E. Olsen -- pt. 3 National Power Structures (starting p. 153) -- 15 The Structure of Power in American Society (starting p. 161) / C. Wright Mills -- 16 The American Power Structure (starting p. 170) / G. William Domhoff -- 17 The Structure of a National Elite Network (starting p. 183) / Gwen Moore -- 18 Elite Integration in Stable Democracies (starting p. 196) / John Higley, Ursula Hoffmann-Lange, Charles Kadushin, Gwen Moore -- 19 The Structure of Intercorporate Unity in American Business (starting p. 210) / Beth Mintz, Michael Schwartz -- 20 Upper-Class Power (starting p. 223) / Harold R. Kerbo -- 21 The Mass Media as a Power Institution (starting p. 238) / Martin N. Marger -- pt. 4 Power and the State (starting p. 251) -- 22 Paradigms of Relations Between State and Society (starting p. 258) / Robert R. Alford -- 23 Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State (starting p. 268) / David A. Gold, Clarence Y.H. Lo, Erik Olin Wright -- 24 The State System and the State Elite (starting p. 277) / Ralph Miliband -- 25 The Reification of the State (starting p. 286) / Alan Wolfe -- 26 The Ruling Class Does Not Rule (starting p. 295) / Fred Block -- 27 The Potential Autonomy of the State (starting p. 306) / Theda Skocpol -- 28 The Autonomous Power of the State (starting p. 314) / Michael Mann -- About the Book and Editors (starting p. 328)

ISBN

• 0813312884
• 9780813312880
• 0813312892
• 9780813312897

LCCN

92028612

OCLC

• ocm26354084
• 26354084
• SCSB-8794676

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library