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Technology is an increasingly important dimension of social life. This title discusses the impact of technology and science on our lives, exploring how power is demonstrated and reinforced by technological innovation

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: theorizing power and the self -- JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO AND BRUCE M. KNAUFT -- Part I Power differentials in the US -- 2 The genocidal continuum: peace-time crimes -- NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES -- 3 Intimate powers, public selves: Bakhtin's space of authoring -- WILLIAM S. LACHICOTTE -- Part II Transnational psychologies -- 4 Playing with power: morphing toys and transforming heroes in kids' mass culture -- ANNE ALLISON 7 -- 5 Consciousness of the state and the experience of self: the runaway daughter of a Turkish guest worker -- KATHERINE PRATT EWING -- Part III Colonial encounters: power/history/self -- 6 Spirit, self, and power: the making of colonial experience in Papua New Guinea -- DOUGLAS DALTON -- 7 Self models and sexual agency -- JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO -- Part IV Reading power against the grain -- 8 Eager subjects, reluctant powers: the irrelevance of ideology in a secret New Guinea male cult -- HARRIET WHITEHEAD -- 9 Feminist emotions -- CATHERINE LUTZ -- Index

One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle. It is an abandonment of our freedom, our will, and our love of justice, and yet socially, psychologically, and ontologically domination in some degree seems inevitable. There is now in the western world an uneasy sense that more domination is going on than necessary, and this work tries to outline the theoretic modalities of this human predicament. The twelve essays in Domination examine such questions as: Does the ego of the infant require for its development some experiences of dominance? Is it men or the system that causes the domination of women? How has capitalism with its property laws entailed limits on national and personal freedom? What do existentialism and critical theory have to tell us about violence and reason, or about magic and science, as modes of life that constrain everyone? What is racialism? And, if the world is beyond the powers of reason, what does modern man now make his public and private raison d'être? Those who are looking for amelioration of the quality and quantity of human freedom will find this book helpful in defining and cracking the chains. The contributors, in order of their appearance of their essays, are O. Weininger, Elizabeth Brady, R.T. Naylor, R.O. Matthews, C.B. Macpherson, Monika Langer, Keith McCallum, Ato Sekyi-Out, Christian Lenhardt, Ben Agger, David Cook, and Alkis Kontos

""A remarkably insightful read on what power is, how it's gained and lost, and how it can be used for good. The masterful analysis by two leading experts will make you rethink some of your most basic assumptions about influence" (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again)"--

Lecture 1.Philosophical problems in the social sciences --Lecture 2.Freedom: Method --Discussion.Hobbes --Lecture 3.Freedom: Interpretation --Lecture 4.Freedom: Principle --Discussion.Spinoza --Lecture 5.Freedom: Selection --Lecture 6.Freedom: Selection (Part 2) --Discussion.Kant --Lecture 7.Power: Selection and interpretation --Lecture 8.Power: Interpretation (Part 2) and method --Discussion.Mill, On liberty --Lecture 9.Power: Method (Part 2) --Lecture 10.Power: Principle; and History: Interpretation --Discussion.Machiavelli --Lecture 11.History: Method and principle, and conclusion --Discussion.Review --Appendix A.Class schedule --Appendix B.List of names --Appendix C.One alternate introduction to the course --Appendix D.Schema of philosophic semantics --Appendix E.Reading selections from Hobbes's Leviathan and Philosophical rudiments --Appendix F.Kant, Fundamental principles: three editions with major sections --Appendix G.Mill, On liberty: four editions with major sections' pagination --Appendix H.McKeon notes on freedom and history --Appendix I.Final examination --Appendix J.Semantic profiles of selected Western thinkers --Appendix K.Alternative definitions of freedom, power, and history.