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Power and Authority
“Power and Power Indicators” by William Domhoff on The Class-Domination Theory of Power
“Power” by Steven Lukes (Available via OhioLINK)
Define power
Overview
OER Text material
Power and Authority
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, 14.1.1
This section defines power from a sociological perspective
Supplementary Material (Videos and Reading)
“Power” by Steven Lukes
Contexts, Vol. 6, Number 3, pp 59-61. (NOTE: Available via OhioLINK)
Lukes reviews the three faces of power and responds to key critiques of the three-dimensional perspective.
“Power and Power Indicators” by William Domhoff on The Class-Domination Theory of Power
Detailed definition of power and indicators of power.
Politics: Crash Course Sociology (Video)
Abstract: Today we’re looking at the sociological approach to politics, different types of authority and political systems, and different sociological theories of power.