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The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy i.

Introduces and defines the concept of social power and examines how it works in international politics. Including perspectives from the EU, the US, Middle East and China, this title features a range of case studies on culture and pop culture, media, public diplomacy and branding

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Why Do We Need to Think about Power? -- A persistent problem -- The power to be late -- What is the place of power in social work? -- The contexts of power in social work -- Key questions about power -- The structure and aims of this book -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- Part 1 Ideas of Power -- 2 Ideas about Power -- Power is a double-edged concept -- Historical ideas of power -- From recognition to definition? -- Power as potential -- Power as possession -- Power as process -- Power as product -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 3 Modes of Power -- Interests and difference -- The 'personal' aspect of power: the role of identity -- Positional power -- Relational power -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 4 Sites of Power -- The importance of context -- Situating power: three frameworks -- Up close and personal: the family -- The community as 'local authority'? -- State institutions: speaking directly to practice -- The global dimension -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- Part 2 Mechanisms of Power -- 5 Structural Influences on Practice -- Making it real -- Appearances count: the media and social work -- Speaking directly to practice: the role of government -- Law and legitimacy -- Social work and the market -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further -- 6 Professionals and Organizations -- Practice and the impact of systems -- The power of professions? -- Social work: a transformative profession? -- Professionalism and 'managerialism' -- 'Reprofessionalizing' social work? -- Social work and other professions -- Social work professionals and service users -- Social work as a 'critical' profession -- Main points -- Stop and think -- Taking it further.

Deals with the comparative and historical social science. This title focuses on a variety of questions relating to states, citizenship, and power, common themes examined with divergent analytical entry points and through deep knowledge of country cases as

It is an exciting time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate both old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. Volume 20 of Political Power and Social Theory starts the ball rolling by showcasing articles that pursue similar themes

Introduces and defines the concept of social power and examines how it works in international politics. Including perspectives from the EU, the US, Middle East and China, this title features a range of case studies on culture and pop culture, media, public diplomacy and branding.

It is an exciting time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate both old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. Volume 20 of "Political Power and Social Theory" starts the ball rolling by showcasing articles that pursue similar themes. The question of what is old and what is new hovers over most of the contributions, particularly the peer-reviewed chapters in parts I and II, which consider such long-standing socio-historical concerns as power structure theory, class-based collective action, and empire - but examine them through new conceptual, methodological, and historical lenses. This year's volume also offers a critical treatment of the spatial or territorial dynamics of state hegemony, class power, ideologies of governance, and citizenship - with the latter theme most well developed in debate over the new geographies of citizenship in the Scholarly Controversy Section as well as in part-II's guest-edited section on Empire and Colonialism.

Introduction : nature, choice and social power -- Mining : earth and water -- Mining nature -- Miners -- Why is gold valuable? -- The car and suburban sprawl : aie and fire -- Henry Ford's car -- Sprawl -- Los Angeles : a brief biography -- Conclusion : power, choice and nature

"Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice. Legacies of social injustice are very frequently erased, denied or declared redundant. Framed by the concept of 'legacy', this book does not conceive legacy as simply referring to relics of the past, or to cultural heritage practices and artifacts. Instead, the book focuses upon 'living legacies', understood as ongoing, actively engaged in the re-constitution of power relations, and influential in the development of alternative political imaginaries. Through a variety of studies from many different contexts-including Indigenous trauma in Australia, displacement in Beirut, women travellers in Scotland, and heteronormativity in Hollywood-the book draws not only upon historiographic, sociological, legal, political, cultural and other disciplinary approaches, but also specifically makes use of feminist and postcolonial perspectives. Foregrounding the legacies of inequality and marginalisation, it contributes to a re-thinking of power and social change in ways that together suggest potential means for unsettling and reimagining such legacies. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary range of readers with interests and concerns in the broad area of social justice, but especially to those working in sociolegal studies, sociology, gender studies, indigenous studies and politics"--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I: Conceptualizing Power -- Chapter 1 Introducing Key Issues -- Introduction -- Physical versus social power -- Power 'to' versus power 'over' -- Asymmetrical versus balanced power -- Power as structures versus agents -- Actual versus potential power -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Meet the Family - Domination, Authority and Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The 'dominant' academic discourse on power -- Bringing authority and legitimacy back in -- Max Weber's complicated legacy -- Recapitulation -- Power, modernity and ambivalence -- Part II: Theorizing Power -- Chapter 3 European Sources -- Introduction -- Early modern harbingers: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Theorists of modernity: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- Return to Italy: classical elitism and Gramsci -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 American Debates -- Introduction -- Power: community structures and national elites -- The power of positive function -- Power hides its face -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Epistemological Approaches -- Introduction -- Barnes: self-fulfilling prophecies -- Foucault: power/knowledge -- Actor-networks, 'realrationalität' and the ghost of Machiavelli -- Bourdieu: the practice of power -- On language and culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Approaches -- Introduction -- Energy, technology and evolution -- Two philosophic histories -- Modes, forms and sources of power -- Conclusion -- Part III: Investigating Power -- Chapter 7 Domination, Authority and Legitimacy in Liberal Society -- Introduction -- State, economy, and the 'memorable alliance' -- Civil society -- Public and private -- Competition as legitimation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Religion and Morality -- Introduction -- Human limits and explanations of religion -- Religion as reflecting the social constitution of power relations.

Preliminary Material /Jarmo Houtsonen and Ari Antikainen -- Introduction /Jarmo Houtsonen and Ari Antikainen -- Symbolic Power as a Critical Concept /Martti Siisiäinen -- The Family as a Social Institution: Struggles Over Legitimate Representations of Reality /Remi Lenoir -- "Me, I Say ... ": The Social Authority of the 'I' /Louis Pinto -- Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality /Loïc Wacquant -- European Statehood in Transition /Max Koch -- Giving Children a Voice: CHildhood, Power and Culture /Jo Moran-Ellis and Heinz Sünker -- Power, State and Education: Restructuring the Nordic Model /Ari Antikainen -- Welfare State Restructuring in Finland and the Accomodation of Schools to Changing Educational Institutions /Jarmo Houtsonen -- Language and Minorites in the European Context /Giovanna Campani -- A Gendered Religious Habitus Takes Root in the Body of Russian Immigrant Girls in Israel /Tamar Rapoport and Elena Neiterman -- Son Preference Culture and Female Children's Empowerment in China /Wen Wang -- Cultural Conditions for Finnish Fashion in the Early 21st Century /Sinikka Ruohonen and Jarmo Houtsonen -- Moving On: Alterning Habitus /Carmel Desmarchelier -- Tangier as a Meeting Place for North African and European Cultures During the Time of the Last Sultans of Morocco /Kirsti Suolinna and Tommy Lahtinen -- The Nature and Types of Indian Intellectuals: Preliminary Observations /Raj Mohan -- Bringing Diasporas to Market: Leveraging Talent (and Patriotism) for Nation's Economies /Susan L. Robertson -- Contributors /Jarmo Houtsonen and Ari Antikainen -- Index /Jarmo Houtsonen and Ari Antikainen.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER ONE Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 -- CHAPTER TWO Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory -- CHAPTER THREE The Exhibitionary Complex -- CHAPTER FOUR Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power -- CHAPTER FIVE Two Lectures -- CHAPTER SIX After the Masses -- CHAPTER SEVEN Family, Education, Photography -- PART TWO: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER EIGHT Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me -- CHAPTER NINE Women, Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History -- CHAPTER TEN Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Prose of Counter-Insurgency -- CHAPTER TWELVE Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System" -- PART THREE: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Born-Again Telescandals -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society -- CHAPTER TWENTY Selections from Marxism and Literature -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX