Power and Control Flashcards
What is uncoerced obedience?
;Not being threatened to do what you are supposed to do.
What is power?
The ability or capacity to achieve a goal even against the interests, will, or resistance of others
What is authority?
Legitimate use of power in a society
Sources of power in history timeline?
Moved from Land (Middle ages) Capital (Renaissance) Information (Modern era) Moved from tangible to symbolic.
As the source of power become symbolic, what becomes more relevant?
Persuasion
Why is communication a source of power?
What counts as important knowledge is decided by people. Just because you have information does not mean you have power, you have to convince others that the info is important.
Who gets to define terms?
The powerful
How do the powerful define terms?
“Effective” News: “Terrorist” “bailout”
By setting the agenda
By Determining who can participate (lawyer)
By dominating talk time (professors)
What is setting the agenda?
Determines what does and doesn’t get talked about
What is discursive closure?
Feature one point while others are dismissed.
What are the different types of discursive closure?
Neutralized- Treated as non social and non political simply by saying such things as “its not personal it’s professional”
Disqualified- “you are just whining”
Naturalized- treated as inevitable, exemplified in such phrases as “that’s just the way things are done around here”
Legitimized- “he deserves it because he is clever” commonly social upheld vales, used when merit is given
What are French and Raven’s 5 basis of power?
- Reward- ability to give something of value
- Coercive- the power to threaten or take something of value
- Referent- identify or share something in common
- Legitimate- Based on the extent to which they see authority as legitimate
- Expert- Based on the extent of knowledge they need
Who traces the two lines of power?
Steward Clegg:
Sovereign centered (who) has the power (professor, queen, CEO). Focused on the power of an individual, group or institution. A distinct source where “who” is easily identifiable.
Strategic aspect (how) nothing to do with who is formally in charge (father daughter present example, horace) Power in use. how to get power.
What is control?
A verb that stresses action and processes, organizations have systems in place that serve to control workers thoughts and actions
What are Edwards three forms of control?
Simple: Relationship based, order based (physically watching someone in cubicles) Advantage: Direct and personal Disadvantage: arbitrary (need management on floor).
Technical: Based on technology (assembly line, cameras)
Advantage: efficiency and equal treatment
Disadvantage: impersonal and inflexible (accidental typing)
Bureaucratic: Based on rules (what you see or can’t do, it’’s our policy cell phone on cruise ship)
Advantage: clear and non arbitrary
Disadvantage: Rigid and depersonalized
