Description - Frameworks of Power by Stewart R Clegg
"Frameworks of Power" provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the different frameworks for understanding power which have been advanced within the social sciences. Stewart Clegg examines both the classical literature on power with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Hobbes, and the modern analysis of power up to the last decade. At the centre of the book are the contributions made by American political and social theorists such as Robert Dahl, Bachrach and Baratz, and Talcott Parsons; the British sociologist Steven Lukes, Anthony Giddens and Michael Mann, and increasingly important contributions for the French school including not only Michel Foucault but also Bruno Latour and Michel Callon. Not only does the book provide an overview of these various frameworks of power, it also develops a new synthesis based on important work in both the sociology of science and the sociology of organizations; and applied this approach to key questions in the comparative historical sociology of the emergence of the modern state.
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