Can You Create Structural Differentiation in Social Power Relations in the Laboratory

1978 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis N. Gray ◽  
Michael J. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Structural Differentiation

Reflections on student power: An absurdist viewpoint

2020 ◽  
pp. 175774382098417
Author(s):  
Brad Bierdz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Student Power ◽  
Attention To Students

This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these student populations are conceived as being the most empowered students within a broad educational landscape, which this piece foundationally challenges. Fundamentally, this article uses a Camusian or Absurdist notion of power and social identity to make sense of how students in higher education take up space within seemingly disempowered educational spaces only to insistently and futilely call to themselves and other students as empowered, although such insistences are empty fallacies of specific social humanities hailing towards their only perceived means of ‘valuable’ social interaction defined by modern conceptions of humanity always already within power relations.

scholarly journals The North Laine: A Visual Essay

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Chris Yuill
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The North

The North Laine in Brighton provides a useful case study in exploring different ways of experiencing and imagining urban life. The area possess many distinctive street forms and supports counter-cultural lifestyles, which emphasise environmentalism and alternative forms of capitalism, such as cooperative and collective organisation of the workplace. Drawing on the ideas and theories of Henri Lefebvre the essay focuses on (1) the various social and historical process that have conditioned and influenced the development of the area and (2) the various social power relations that have both sustained the area, allowing it to develop into its current format, and in turn question its future. A visual methodological approach is used to present the data and to convey the distinctive aesthetic of The North Laine.

Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Liboiron ◽  
Manuel Tironi ◽  
Nerea Calvillo
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Ways Of Life

Toxicity has become a ubiquitous, if uneven, condition. Toxicity can allow us to focus on how forms of life and their constituent relations, from the scale of cells to that of ways of life, are enabled, constrained and extinguished within broader power systems. Toxicity both disrupts existing orders and ways of life at some scales, while simultaneously enabling and maintaining ways of life at other scales. The articles in this special issue on toxic politics examine power relations and actions that have the potential for an otherwise. Yet, rather than focus on a politics that depends on the capture of social power via publics, charismatic images, shared epistemologies and controversy, we look to forms of slow, intimate activism based in ethics rather than achievement. One of the goals of this introduction and its special issue is to move concepts of toxicity away from fetishized and evidentiary regimes premised on wayward molecules behaving badly, so that toxicity can be understood in terms of reproductions of power and justice. The second goal is to move politics in a diversity of directions that can texture and expand concepts of agency and action in a permanently polluted world.

Facetten der Macht

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Koller
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Elementary Concept

AbstractSocial power has many facets. This paper aims to illuminate some of these. First of all, it considers the general conceptual framework in which the concept of power is embedded. The author then elaborates on an analysis of the elementary concept of social power resulting in a proposal how to define power. Furthermore, the article deals with complex networks of power relations, namely constellations and structures of power. Another section focuses on some special aspects of the dynamics of power structures. Finally, the author discusses the problem of legitimation of power.

Linguae francae als Instrument symbolischer Macht in den Internationalen Brigaden

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
Iryna Orlova
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Linguistic Capital ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Lingua Franca

AbstractThe multilingual nature of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War raises the question of means of communication in different war contexts. This article focuses on the use of a lingua franca as a strategy of understanding between volunteers from more than 53 nations, as well between these and their military and political leaders. Drawing on the Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of linguistic capital, the language choice is understood as a representation of social power relations. So that, the analysis of language choice and language usage in a Civil War conflict brings new insights about the organization and functioning of the International Brigades, the centers of power and their change in the course of the war.

scholarly journals Postcolonial urban futures: Imagining and governing India’s smart urban age

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayona Datta
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Future Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Rich

This paper examines the ‘future’ as a blueprint for social power relations in postcolonial urbanism. It addresses a crucial gap in the rich scholarship on postcolonial urbanism that has largely ignored the ‘centrality of time’ (Chakrabarty, 2000 ) in the politics and speed of urban transformations. This paper takes postcolonial urbanism as a ‘colonisation of/with time’ (Adam, 2004 ) that reaches across spaces, scales and times of the past, present and future to produce cities as spatio-temporal entities. Using the lens of ‘futuring’ (Urry, 2016 ) as a practice of imagining and governing cities through speed, this paper analyses India’s national 100 Smart Cities Mission through a set of popular myths that create a dialectic relation between past and future. It suggests that smart cities in India are marked by the deployment of two parallel mythologies of speed – nationhood and technology. While the former refers to a mythical moral state, the latter refers to transparent and accountable governance in order to produce smart cities in the image of the moral state. The paper concludes that while postcolonial future time is imagined at the scale of the smart city, there is a simultaneous recalibration of its governance at the scale of the nation.

The role of social power relations in gift giving on Valentine's Day

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Rugimbana ◽  
Brett Donahay ◽  
Christopher Neal ◽  
Michael Jay Polonsky
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Valentine's Day

Discursive Practices in Chinese Talk Shows_Semi-institutional Communication Shaped by Multi-dimensional Power Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 322-332
Author(s):  
Chen Yang
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Institutional Communication ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Commercial Organizations ◽  
Discourse Practice

Similar to American talk shows, the institutional communication of Chinese talk shows is also affected by complicated and mutually influencing power relations. Therefore, through the analysis of discourse practice and power relations, the author hopes to reveal some unique characteristics of the institutional communication of talk shows in mainland China. By utilizing Sinclair and Coulthard’s rank scale model, an episode of A Date with Lu Yu was selected for a case study of discursive communication. The study shows that Chinese talk shows shared the common characteristics of semi-institutional communication with western counterpart. Besides, the hierarchical structure of communication is prominently reflected in Chinese talk shows. The social power relations between hosts, guests and external forces shape the discourse structure of Chinese talk shows. In particular, commercial organizations that sponsor media have great power in determining the goals and shaping the forms of discourse practice.

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