SOSC 1040 Lecture 11: Power & Ideology

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1040
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

The concepts of power & ideology and models of society. The concept of power: the capacity to influence/control other people in significant ways, through force or through ideas. Power is unequally distributed in our society. Power defined as control over resources, wealth and the law. Power defined as social regulation and control it emerges through social relations. People often try to oppose oppressive power to create social change. Power is fluid and dynamic and society is under constant change. Human societies are defined by their different modes of production : paleolithic, neolithic, Structural functionalism - e. durkheim: social cohesion, solidarity, social order, anomie. Class conflict model marx and engels: social hierarchy, profit motive, class conflict, alienation. Dialectics: change results from the struggle and tension between opposing forces everything in society is related, change is constant, change proceeds from quantitative to qualitative, The patriarchal order: social and cultural arrangement that privileges the power of males over females.