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De meest uitgesproken vorm van negatief, vaak gewelddadige dwang en bevel, is slavernij. Meestal als minderwaardig voorgestelde mensen worden hier volledig onderworpen aan de absolute en willekeurige despotie van een heer. Deze verslavingsmacht kan echter ook positief uitpakken en leiden tot een merkwaardige verstrengeling van onderworpenheid, overgave en zich vrij werken. Juist bij slavernij zijn verzet en bevrijding het meest ondubbelzinnig aan het werk als 'tegen de macht in werkende handelingen'. In de wereld van nu is slavernij verboden en zijn alle mensen tot vrij geboren, gelijke en gelijkwaardige leden van de mensenfamilie 'verklaard'. Betekent dit dat macht en slavernij verdwenen zijn? Of tenminste, dat zij veranderd zijn in een vrij en ongedwongen omgaan, samenleven en samenwerken met elkaar? Of is er geen spat veranderd?

Power as the central concept for the analysis of causality in social life: A conceptual-analytical elaboration
Reinoud Bosch
This article provides a description of a conceptual analysis of 'power'. Defining 'power' as 'the relative ability to affect or receive', a method for conceptual analysis is posited and examples are provided of the conceptual analysis of power. An overview is provided of the resulting categories and subcategories of the concept, and possibilities for the use of the concept as a sensitizing concept in the analysis of causality in social life are indicated.
In their replies Fred Wester and Harrie Jansen discuss some aspects of causality and power that need further attention. In his reaction Reinoud Bosch further elaborates on his perspective on the power concept.

Introduces a journal symposium (see abstracts of related articles) on the influence of pressure groups on politics in Belgium. The ambivalent character of the contribution of power groups to democracy is discussed, distinguishing explanations based on the pluralist tradition, according to which groups are channels to democracy, & elite theories, which stress the power of oligarchies in the democratic hierarchy. Subsequently, Ingrid Vanhoren's (1990) categorization of external (eg, cultural & structural situation) & internal (eg, financial power & organizational infrastructure) characteristics of groups is used to determine what renders some groups more powerful than others. It is argued that the characteristics of groups are related to structural logics of power. In postwar Belgium, dominant power structures include vertical pluralism or pillarization, pillar-crossing cleavages, neocorporatism, & postmaterialism. An attempt is made to contextualize the recent globalization processes within the framework of these structural logics of power. Adapted from the source document.