POL 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Union Reform Party Of South Carolina, False Consciousness, Class Consciousness
12 Apr 2016
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Pol 339 week 1&2 gaventa, lukes & marx. Three dimensions of power (lukes; gaventa: key features of each dimension of power. Effectiveness/skills in using them can make a difference osecond dimension: !active: political demands are either silent or deflected the threat of sanction- threatening someone into sanction and silence. Manipulating symbols- as a threat or delegitimizing people"s values and ideas (calling people communists/ troublemaker) !inactive: institutional inaction- institutions can make no actions and anticipation of defeat- when this happens over and over, they anticipate the defeat and stops the people from putting up a fight othird dimension: !direct: control of information-control of mass media, school, family norms and culture, religious institution. 1800"s, people did not rise up against these companies. !the companies have already acquired the first and second dimension which sustain the company. It has shaped people"s values despite losing their first dimension of power. Gaventa"s central thesis: a rebellion occur once the status quo of power relations changed.
