ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pierre Bourdieu, Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault
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Power to: act create think change. November 20, 2012: deductive: dominate, control, coerce, exploit, tax, punish, productive: enable, encourage, educate, set conditions. John allen, lost geographies of power: power: makes its presence felt through a variety of modes playing across one another. The erosion of choice, the closure of possibilities, the manipulation of outcomes, the threat of force, the assent of authority or the inviting gestures of a seductive presence . Steven lukes: 3 modes of political power (see also text p. 269: 1. Formal decision making rules, structures, authorities visible structures. Agenda setting, informal influence, coercion, persuasion, inducement hidden but can be exposed. Role of ngos and lobby groups: 3. Non-debated, routine, muted, embedded in values, taken for granted, just how it is . Structure of institutions (eg. school, classroom environments, employment process in the job market, etc. ) Pierre bourdieu (french anthropologist: doxa: the unsaid, the ways of thinking and acting we take for granted.
