SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture 13: Lecture 13 & 14 - October 21st & October 24th.docx
15 Jan 2014
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Power, domination and authority: power, weber defined power as the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance , two problems associated with his definition, this definition is too broad to be useful, it seems to allow power relations to be temporary, domination. Saw domination as a special case of power: allows us to set aside where the situations can be temporary, domination refers to power relations that involve persistent patterns of social inequality, a subordinate group with accept that subordinate position in a sustained arrangement, he argues that classes, status groups and parties are the principal basis for exercising domination in society, there will be dominate classes, status groups and parties, types of domination, legitimate authority, subordinates comply because they accept the right of others to govern over them.
