SOC203H1 Lecture Notes - Gender Inequality, Primitive Communism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Start with a quote: from hannah arendt (1906-1975) Veugelers thinks she was talking about power based on coercion. If you"re a powerful person who"s threatening to use violence against someone, there is a paradox. You can only use this power if the person you are threatening is alive. What is buried in this statement is the idea that the powerful must observe a certain restraint. Weber is telling us we cant understand power relations without taking into account the capacity of those in. Pg 181 simmel: domination is a form of interaction. The will of the subordinate person matters. This implies that the subordinate person has choice, even if limited. The behaviour of the powerful might have to be adjusted, based on the choices of the less powerful. Language is abstract but paper is organized well in unit. Power is rarely so complete as to rule out all personal freedom on the part of the subordinate.
