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Title: The Meta-Power Paradigm

The Meta-Power Paradigm

Impacts and Transformations of Agents, Institutions, and Social Systems-- Capitalism, State, and Democracy in a Global Context

by Tom R. Burns (Volume editor) Peter M. Hall (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 554 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

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.

Details

Pages
554
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653020618
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631616383
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02061-8
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (May)
Keywords
power and control culture social change global issues Yugoslavia Power elites Communist Eastern Europe
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 554 pp.

Biographical notes

Tom R. Burns (Volume editor) Peter M. Hall (Volume editor)

Tom R. Burns is Professor Emeritus at Uppsala University (Sweden), Visiting Scholar, Woods Institute, Stanford University, and Senior Research Associate at ISCTE, Lisbon. He is a widely recognized social theorist and researcher and one of the founding members of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB). Peter M. Hall is Affiliate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri. His areas of interest include political sociology, radical movements, organizations and work, policy processes, social theory, science, and the environment. He has served as editor of the journal Symbolic Interaction and president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He received the Society’s George Herbert Mead Award for career contributions in 1994.

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