Power In Modern Societies Marvin E. Olsen

Power In Modern Societies by Marvin E. Olsen

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This revised edition of "Power in Societies" contains writings on the exercise of power in contemporary modern society. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state.

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Power In Modern Societies by Marvin E. Olsen

An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsens Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state. Designed as a text on political sociology, social stratification, and power in society, the anthology offers classical and contemporary, theoretical and empirical writings. An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsens Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state. Each of the books sections is introduced with an essay by the editors. Designed as a text for courses on political sociology, social stratification, and power in society, the anthology offers classical and contemporary, theoretical and empirical writings.

Power In Social Organization; Problems in Defining Power; (Dennis H. Wrong. ); Power as a Societal Force; (Amitai Etzioni. ); Forms and Levels of Power Exertion; (Marvin E. Olsen. ); Power, Domination, and Legitimacy; (Max Weber. ); Power-Dependence Relations; (Richard M. Emerson. ); Power and Distributive Systems; (Gerhard E. Lenski. ); Power in Society as Resource and Problem; (Robert S. Lynd. ); Theoretical Perspectives On Power; The Materialist Conception of History; (Karl Marx. ); Inventory of Marxs Ideas; (C. Wright Mills. ); The Materialistic Interpretation of History; (Robert L. Heilbroner. ); The Iron Law of Oligarchy; (Robert Michels. ); The Ruling Elites; (Kenneth Prewitt and Alan Stone. ); Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans; (Alexis de Tocqueville. ); Sociopolitical Pluralism; (M. E. Olsen. ); National Power Structures; The Structure of Power in American Society; (C. W. Mills. ); The American Power Structure; (G. William Domhoff. ); The Structure of a National Elite Network; (Gwen Moore. ); Elite Integration in Stable Democracies; (John Higley, Ursula Hoffmann-Lange, Charles Kadushin, and G. Moore. ); The Structure of Intercorporate Unity in American Business; (Beth Mintz and Michael Schwartz. ); Upper-Class Power; (Harold R. Kerbo. ); The Mass Media as a Power Institution; (Martin N. Marger. ); Power And The State; Paradigms of Relations Between State and Society; (Robert R. Alford. ); Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State; (David A. Gold, Clarence Y.H. Lo, and Erik Olin Wright. ); The State System and the State Elite; (Ralph Miliband. ); The Reification of the State; (Alan Wolfe. ); The Ruling Class Does Not Rule; (Fred Block. ); The Potential Autonomy of the State; (Theda Skocpol. ); The Autonomous Power of the State; (Michael Mann.)

Power In Modern Societies Marvin E. Olsen

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