Power, Ideology, and Control

One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for actionỚ action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power,...

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Main Author: Oliga, John C. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1996.
Series:Contemporary Systems Thinking,
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505 0 # |a Critical Systems Thinking and Critical Social Theory -- Metatheoretical Concerns -- Forms of Social Order and Their Sustaining Worldviews -- Individualism and Social Order -- Unitarism and Social Order -- Pluralism and Social Order -- Enlightenment and Empowerment -- Power and Interests -- Ideology -- Transformation: Toward Individual Freedom and Happiness and Collective Autonomy and Responsibility -- Control and Social Order -- Control and Human Interests -- Control, Constancy, and Change -- Control and Strategic Ideologies -- Critical Social Theory -- Concluding Reflections -- Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Transformation of Societal Systems -- Conclusion. 
520 # # |a One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for actionỚ action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power, but these say little about what we should do. Most often they are abstract and out of reach of all but a select few. In this book, however, we have a clear-cut account of power, ideology, and control that paves the way for practic- minded people to make a genuine attempt at tackling issues of power on both organizational and societal levels. John C. Oliga suggests a division between what he calls "objectivist," "subjectivist," and "relational" perspectives. With objectivism, he refers to theories that focus on power as capacities located in social structures. These tend to be either synergistic (e.g., Parsonian collective) or conflictual (e.g., Marxian conflictual view) theoretical orientations. With subjectivism he discusses theories that focus on power possessed by agents. With rela℗Ư tional approaches he places theories that conceive power as a property of interaction among social forces. 
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