POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Harm Principle, Middle Ages, Biopower
14 Jan 2016
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Bachrach & baratz (power agenda setting): two faces of power. Agrees with pluralism that elitist approach predetermines its answers. Also argues that power has other dimensions beyond what pluralism observes. Agenda may be set to keep things safe for those in power some ideas are ruled unimportant. How does non-decision making" work? : concerns of elitist approach democracy is not fully working. Lukes (power & consent): drew his ideas from gramsci"s theory of hegemony, most interested in the ways power function in the non-obvious, gramsci communist who wrote about how society worked ways post russian revolution. How do power relations become accepted as common sense? . Deduced that power functions best when it is least noticed consent is more powerful than coercion. Consent occurs through the shaping of desire & beliefs (luke & gramsci) People may not act on their real interests but on the basis of deference, allegiances, socialization, etc.
