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"This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, determinants and consequences of social capital. Social capital can be understood in terms of social norms and networks. It manifests itself in patterns of trust, reciprocity, and cooperation. The authors argue that the degree to which and the different ways in which people exhibit these distinctively social behaviours depend on how norms and networks elicit their values, reflect power relationships, and draw on their social identities. This volume accordingly adopts a variety of different concepts and measures that incorporate the variety of contextually-specific factors that operate on social capital formation. In addition, it adopts an interdisciplinary outlook that combines a wide range of social science disciplines and methods of social research. Our objective is to challenge standard rationality theory explanations of norms and networks which overlook the role of values, power and identity. This volume appeals to researchers and students in multiple social sciences, including economics, sociology, political science, social psychology, history, public policy, and international relations that employ social capital concepts and methods in their research; be seen as a set of new extensions of social capital theory in connection with its themes of social values, power, and identity that would advance the scholarly literature on social norms and networks"--

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe. It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history. First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work

Intro -- Frontespizio -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword: Towards a Science of Gamification and Its Relationship to Governance and Democracy -- 1. What if Government Was a Game? -- 1. Not your average tetris -- 2. Imagining the future of public power -- 3. Gamification, governance and regulators -- 4. Innovation and tradition -- 5. Technologies and public power -- 6. Increased convergence, higher expectations -- 7. Escaping anachronism -- 8. Conceptual shifts -- 9. Gamification at crossroads no. 1 - nudging -- 10. Gamification at crossroads no. 2 - democratic Innovations -- 11. Gamification at crossroads no. 3 - crowdsourcing -- 12. Gamification at crossroads no. 4 - civic tech -- 13. The era of disbelief -- 14. Regulators in crisis -- 15. The odd paradox -- 16. The participatory makeover -- 17. Fiscal austerity, the costs of (non-)innovating -- 18. Regulatory complexity, obliged to innovate -- 19. The open questions of gamified governance -- 20. The structure of the volume -- 2. A Cursory Investigation into Gamification -- 1. Gamification in political communication -- 2. The politicisation of games -- 3. Gamification and the business sector -- 4. Gamified media -- 5. Games and universities -- 6. Gamified activism -- 7. The gamification of climate change activism -- 3. Games, Rewards and the Exercise of Public Power -- 1. Mayor for a day -- 2. Design is key -- 3. Civic currencies -- 4. Where is the red balloon? -- 5. Be kind to your neighbours -- 6. Participated budgets -- 7. Taxonomy of national gamified governance -- 8. Vultures with GoPros -- 9. Speed camera lotteries and melodic highways -- 10. Incumbent and critical democracies -- 4. Gamification Beyond Borders -- 1. Gamified supranational governance -- 2. Social innovators and young scientists -- 3. Storytellers, innovators, connectors and includers.

This book offers critical reflection on Pierre Bourdieu's account of the relationships between class, culture, power and taste. It compares and contrasts different theoretical and conceptual approaches, and brings empirical investigations to bear on relevant theoretical issues about social distinction. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Cultural Economy.

"The concepts of power and identity are vital to many areas of social research. In this edited collection, a prominent set of contributors explore the double relationship between power and group identity, focusing on two complementary lines of enquiry:In what ways can the powerful dictate the identities of the powerless? How can the powerless redefine their identity to challenge the powerful? Each chapter is written by leading authorities in the field, and investigates a particular aspect of the interplay of identity and power via a range of empirical contexts such as colonialism, nationalism, collective action, and electoral politics.The case studies include early modern Goa under Portuguese rule, the tribes of modern-day Jordan, the use of sexual stereotyping and objectification by female activists seeking to transform social systems, and a revisiting of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment. The chapters include contributions from a variety of social disciplines and research methodologies, and together provide a comprehensive overview of a subject at the cutting-edge of social and political psychology.Power and Identity will be of great interest to researchers, graduates and upper-level undergraduate students from across the social sciences.

Intro -- UNDERSTANDING POWER AND EMOTION: AN INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING POWER AND EMOTION: AN INTRODUCTION -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: WHAT IS POWER? -- Chapter 3: POWER-ELITES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- Chapter 4: GLOBAL POWER -- THE POWER OF GLOBALIZATION -- THEORETICAL COMPLEXITIES OF GLOBALISATION -- Chapter 5: THE PROBLEM OF POWER AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION -- 'BUILDING BLOCK' OF MODERNISM: COMMUNICATIVE ACTION -- 'IN THE BLUE AND RED CORNERS': LYOTARD V HABERMAS -- PUTTING HABERMAS UNDER THE THEORETICAL MICROSCOPE -- Chapter 6: THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF EMOTION -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERACTIONISM, SYMBOLISM AND SITUATIONAL RELATIONS: EMOTIONS AS PRIVATE TROUBLES -- STRUCTURE, RATIONALITY AND GENDER: EMOTIONS AS 'PUBLIC ISSUES' -- BRINGING EMOTION BACK INTO SOCIAL THEORY: A NEW SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Niklas Luhmann's Sociological Enlightenment and its Realization in Trust and Power: Christian Morgner and Michael King" -- "Sociological Enlightenment" -- "The Meaning of Systems" -- "The Historical and Sociological Context of Trust and Power" -- "Functional Analysis and its Semantics" -- "The Reception of Luhmann's Sociology in English-speaking Countries" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Editors' Note on the Revised Translation" -- "Part I: Trust" -- "Preface" -- "1 Defining the Problem: Social Complexity" -- "Notes" -- "2 Constancies and Events" -- "Notes" -- "3 Familiarity and Trust" -- "Notes" -- "4 Trust as a Reduction of Complexity" -- "Notes" -- "5 Exceeding Information and Possibilities for Sanctions" -- "Notes" -- "6 Personal Trust" -- "Notes" -- "7 Communications Media and System Trust" -- "Notes" -- "8 The Tactical Conception: Trust as Opportunity and as Constraint" -- "Notes" -- "9 Trust in Trust" -- "Notes" -- "10 Trust and Distrust" -- "Notes" -- "11 Readiness to Trust" -- "Notes" -- "12 The Rationality of Trust and Distrust" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Part II: Power" -- "Introduction" -- "Notes" -- "1 Power as a Communication Medium" -- "Notes" -- "2 The Action Framework" -- "Notes" -- "3 Code Functions" -- "Notes" -- "4 Power and Physical Force" -- "Notes" -- "5 Lifeworld and Technique" -- "Notes" -- "6 The Generalization of Influence" -- "Notes" -- "7 Risks of Power" -- "Notes" -- "8 Power's Relevance to Society" -- "Notes" -- "9 Organized Power" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Appendix: Relevant Articles by Luhmann in English