SOC 1 Lecture 6: Power and Relations
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* presence of organized power is a feature of all known societies thus far. * dominations never appears without resistance to it. * resistance: to the exercise of unwanted power is a constant in every society. * can be infra political, i. e. , off the radar of formal politics. * or organized into collective social action, social movements, insurrections, rebellions and revolutions. * social relationships confer power and social institutions authorize it. * is not merely interpersonal; some gain and some lose in systematic ways. * police officers and soldiers-example of a group who are powerful yet powerless at the same time. * legal and governmental authority to use violence, power to tell a civilian to do something. * however as individuals, the vast majority, their power is very low-work in a hierarchical institution. * sociologists tend to look at the system of power first. * intent and outcome often do not line-up.
