ISBN:
9780292762213
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 353 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Print version Energy and structure
DDC:
301.15/5
Keywords:
Social structure
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Nature Effect of human beings on
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Power (Social sciences)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. The Nature of Power -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Elements -- 3. Additional Considerations -- A. Power and Control -- B. Reciprocity and Omnipresence -- C. Authority and Legitimacy -- D. Types of Power Exercise -- 4. The Variety of Operating Units -- A. Fragmented Units -- B. Informal Units -- C Formal Units -- 5. Power Domains and Levels -- A. Power Domains -- B. Levels and Confrontations -- C. The Expansion of Domains and Levels -- Part Two. Energetic and Mentalistic Structures -- 6. A Note on Structure, Mind and Matter, and Culture
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7. The Energetic -- A. Energy and Flow -- B. The Second Law-and Order -- C. Man in the Ecosystem -- D. Human Society: An Expanding System -- 8. The Mentalistic -- A. Binary Distinctions and Levels -- B. The Nature of Ranking -- C. Value Classes -- D. Some Mentalistic-Energetic Regularities -- Part Three. A Model of the Evolution of Power -- 9. The Framework -- A. Evolution: General and Specific -- B. The Growth Sequence -- 10. Levels of Integration -- A. Protolevels -- B. The Local Level: Band and Tribe -- C. The Regional Level and the Centralizing Role of Dogma
Abstract:
D. The State Level and Social Stratification -- E. The National Level and the Recent Historic Era -- 11. Replicative Processes -- A. Energetic Expansion and Mentalistic Reduction -- B. The Phases of Expansion -- C. ""Vertical"" and ""Horizontal"" Oscillations -- D. Power to the Top: The General Theory -- 12. Social Power and the Future -- A. Some Things That Cannot Happen -- B. What Level of Life? -- Works Cited -- Index
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