Concept information
Preferred term
power (sociology)
Definition
- Power is a concept broadly used both in personal and political communication and in scientific discourse. Everybody claims to know what power is. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Power]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- ableness
- analytic coercion
- brute luck
- cabals
- capabilities
- complex equality
- decisions and game theory
- determinacy
- domain
- exit and voice as forms of power
- key debates in power
- key people in the study of power
- political power
- power and institutional issues
- power and international relations
- power and intrapersonal matters
- power and methodological issues
- power and political science
- power and political theory
- power and social psychology
- power and social theory
- power and urban studies
- power in interpersonal relationships
- power of argument
- role of power in racism
- scope
- theories of power
- types of power
- unintended consequences
- use of fear
- vehicle fallacy
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/power_(sociology)
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