A review essay on books by (1) Lisa Anderson, Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Columbia U Press, 2003); (2) David L. Featherman & Maris A. Vinovskis (Eds), Social Science and Policy-Making: A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century (Ann Arbor: U Michigan Press, 2001); (3) Peter Szanton, Not Well Advised: The City as Client -- An Illuminating Analysis of Urban Governments and Their Consultants (San Jose, CA: Authors Choice Press, 2001).
Authority and Power in Social Interaction explores methods of analyzing authority and power in the minutiae of interaction. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse international team of organizational communication and language and social interaction scholars, this book suggests reverting the perspective that notions of authority and power constrain human activity, to determine how people (re)create them through conversation and other joint action. Confronting several perspectives within each chapter, the book offers a broad range of approaches to each theme: how and when to bring "context" into the analysis, formal authority, institutions, bodies and materiality, immateriality, and third parties. A core belief of this volume is that authority and power are not looming over human activity; rather, we weave together the constraints that we mutually impose on each other. Observing the details of how this joint process takes place may at once better account for how authority and power emerge and impact our actions, and provide guidelines on how to resist them. This book will be an important reference for students and scholars in language and social interaction, organizational communication, as well as those interested in an alternative take on issues of authority and power. It will also find resonance among those interested in managements studies, public administration and other disciplines interested in situations where authority is a crucial issue
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Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Acknowledgements --0. Introduction --0.1 PREFACE --0.2 STRUCTURE AND SUBSTANCE --0.3 METHODS --1. The Nature of Power --1.1 DEFINITIONAL APPROACH --1.2 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF POWER --1.3. HUMANKIND, POWER AND HISTORY -- FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS --2. The Concretions of Power --2.1 FORMS OF POWER --2.2 POWER AND SYMBOLISM --2.3 POWER FIELDS --2.4 THE COMMON GOOD --2.5 THE VECTORS OF POLITICAL POWER --3. The Practice of Power --3.1 THE POWER CHESS MODEL --3.2 EMPOWER MODEL --3.3 CONDENSING --3.4 INFLUENCING --3.5 GLOBAL GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS --3.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS --4 Literature --4.1 SPECIALIST LITERATURE --4.2 ADDITIONAL SOURCES
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Intro -- Contents -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1. Language and power -- 2. Investigating power in a close-knit group -- 3. Latent and emergent networks -- 4. Interventions as interruptions in discourse -- 5. The structure of the book -- 6. The data and the participants -- 6.1 The data -- 6.2 The participants -- Chapter Two: Towards a dynamic model of discourse -- 1. Introductory -- 2. A modular approach to discourse structure -- 2.1 The exchange structure -- 2.2 Action structure -- 2.3 Ideational structure -- 2.4 The participation framework -- 2.5 The information state -- 2.6 Levels or modules? -- 3. Turns and floors -- 4. Turns as on-record "speakings" -- 5. The floor as participation space in the discourse -- 6. Topics -- Chapter Three: Defining power -- 1. Power as inherent to verbal interaction -- 2. Self-image, status and dominance -- 3. Definitions of power -- 3.1 Power as the capacity to impose one's will -- 3.2 The consensual view of power -- 3.3 Power as a commodity and power as a discursive force -- 3.4 Power as the capacity to achieve one's aims -- 4. Defining the exercise of power -- Chapter Four: Intervention as interruption in social science research -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Interruption as a theoretical term -- 3. Interruptions as simultaneous speech -- 4. Operationalising interruption as a variable in experimental research -- 5. Conceptualising the term "interruption" within conversation analysis -- 6. Taxonomies of interruption -- 7. Interpretive criteria in evaluating interruptions -- 8. Interruptions as face-threatening behaviour and the exercise of power -- 9. A return to the "prudish view" of interruptions -- 10. Interrupting as a reprehensible social activity: the lay interpretation -- 11. Towards a definition of interruption -- Chapter Five: Types of verbal intervention in family discourse -- 1. Introduction.
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THE POWER APPROACH IN POLITICAL SCIENCE IS ANALYZED BY FIRST CONTRASTING TRADITIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DEFINITIONS OF POWER. SECONDLY, FIVE BEHAVIORAL DEFINITIONS ARE EXAMINED TO ILLUSTRATE THE DIVERSITY OF DEFINITIONS OF POWER IN THE DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. THIRDLY, THE FORMULATIONS OF POWER BY THREE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARS ARE DESCRIBED AND CRITICALLY EVALUATED.
