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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"--

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.

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 -- 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.

1. Power and identity : the multiple facets of a complex relationship / Denis Sindic, Manuela Barreto and Rui Costa-Lopes -- 2. Empire, religion and identity : the making of Goan people in the early modern period / Angela Barreto Xavier -- 3. State power and the genesis of Portuguese national identity / Jose Manuel Sobral -- 4. They're here to stay : tribes and power in contemporary Jordan / Eleanor Gao -- 5. Angry naked ladies : can stereotyping and sexual objectification be used to transform social system? / Olivier Klein. [et al.] -- 6. Empowerment : the intersection of identity and power in collective action / John Drury, Atalanti Evripidou and Martijn van Zomeren -- 7. May the force be with you : social identity, power and the perils of powerlessness / Stephen Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam -- 8. Power by the people and for the people : political power and identity in the separation and integration of national states / Denis Sindic -- 9. Understanding intergroup relations in context : power and identity / John F. Dovidio.

There are numerous studies on the role of power-sharing agreements in the maintenance of peace in postconflict states. Less explored, however, is the impact of power sharing on the quality of the peace. Do power-sharing institutions in fact transform the balance of power among actors in the aftermath of civil wars? And if so, how? As they address these issues, seeking to establish a new research agenda, the authors provide a rich new analytical approach to understanding how power sharing actually works

Community self-help has gained increasing prominence in Cambodia, and elsewhere, as an urban poverty reduction strategy of non-government organisations and the state. Embedded in this approach are assumptions of 'community' as a site of cooperation and 'women' as an inherently cohesive social group with a shared identity. If such interventions are to be effective and inclusive it is critical to understand how the practices and discourses that underscore them interact with local struggles to produce new forms of power.A qualitative case study of an urban informal settlement in Phnom Penh involving multiple semi-structured interviews with 25 women residents and staff of a nongovernment organisation identified differing perspectives of how development interventions worked and what they were supposed to achieve. Divergent motivations for participation, the selves women constructed as distinct from the identities they were expected to perform by non-government organisation staff, parallel group membership pathways controlled by wealthier residents, and the silencing of violence experienced by women illustrated these cleavages. In response to these misalignments women found alternate ways to assert entitlement and subvert social power to further their respective interests.This thesis makes three arguments. First, that in this settlement development and aid were a both a struggle over redistribution of resources and a symbolic struggle over morality and entitlement. Second, that development adapted to social structures by entrenching the power of existing elites, while social structure adapted to development by creatingparallel discourses and modes of participation. Third, that women were both oppressed (by local authorities, men, landlords, and police) and oppressors (of each other). These themes have important implications for self-reliance groups that mobilise women on the assumption that economic marginalisation will shape collective identity. Gender-based group formation offers the potential to transcend and transform the exclusions that women in urban informal settlements encounter in their everyday lives. Attention,however, must be paid to gradients of power and social hierarchy within and across groups – beyond the state/citizen dyad – and an understanding of 'development' as embedded in everyday politics.

Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires. Volume 3 discusses the 'Great Divergence' between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism, socialism and fascism; and the triumph of a reformed and democratic capitalism