Power & Interest

Question 1

What is Power? 3 things

Answer 1

Relational - Never emanates by one single force that causes everything around it to move

Relative - To the thing that we’re talking about

Contextual - In which certain forms of power are relevant

Question 2

Three ways power operates

Answer 2

Pluralist (institutionally) - can’t tangibly hold power but we can see it in terms of it’s outcomes

Agenda setting - power can be manifested

Convergence - my interests are your interests

Question 3

Types of Power (5)

Answer 3

economic - institutional power, ie your boss firing you

symbolic - power that comes from knowledge, claims to expertise

cultural - forming who people think they are IDENTITY

aesthetic - feelings emotions, sociological effects, ie POWER of symbolism

violence - all forms

Question 4

Economic Power

Answer 4

Your boss is firing you, but does not rise from material things alone

power is institutional

Question 5

Symbolic Power

Answer 5

Power that comes from knowledge, claims to expertise

Question 6

Cultural Power

Answer 6

forming who people think they are (IDENTITY)

prestiege, reputation,

Question 7

Aesthetic Power

Answer 7

sociological, affects feelings and emotional relations to things

POWER OF SYMBOLISM

Question 8

Interests

Answer 8

Wider scope than material goods

almost always only makes sense in the context of identities