Popitz Phenomena of Power

Authority, Domination, and Violence
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54456-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and how to track them in the social world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popitz, Heinrich

Weitere Mitwirkende

Göttlich, Andreas

Poggi, Gianfranco

Dreher, Jochen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Introduction
Translator's Note
Acknowledgments
1. The Concept of Power
Part I: Forms of Enforcement
2. Violence
3. Threatening and Being Threatened
4. The Authority Bond
5. Needs for Authority: The Change in Social Subjectivity
6. Technical Action
Part II: Forms of Stabilization
7. Processes of Power Formation
8. Power and Domination: Stages of the Institutionalization of Power
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heinrich Popitz (1925–2002) was professor of sociology and founding director of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg. In 1971-72, he was Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research.

Gianfranco Poggi is professor of sociology at the University of Trento and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and the European University Institute.