Acknowledgements.
1. Patterns of Power
Mainstream and Second Stream.
The Elementary Forms of Social Power.
Structures of Domination.
Counteraction.
Interpersonal Power.
2. Command and Sovereign Power
States and State Elites.
Integration and Recruitment.
Economic Governance..
3. Pressure and Policy Formation
Pressure and Polyarchy.
Decisions, Nondecisions, and Representaton.
Networks of Pressure and Policy.
4. Constraint and Hegemony
Financial Power and Economic Constraint.
Political Constraint and Hegemony.
State Power and Class Hegemony.
5. Discipline and Expertise
Government, Discourse, and Discipline.
Expertise and Professionalism.
6. Protest and Collective Mobilisation
Structures of Collective Protest.
Theories of Organised Protest.
The Development of Protest.
Globalisation and Protest.
7. Interpersonal Power
Power, Dependence, and Embodiment.
Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Power.
Interpersonal Power and Charismatic Authority.
8. Coda
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and the University of Bergen.
‘Scott provides a well-documented and admirably succinct analysis
of social power in its diverse forms and their embodiment in both
hierarchical social institutions and interpersonal relations'
Dennis Wrong, Professor Emeritus, New York University
‘Using some simple but robust analytical distinctions, Professor
Scott neatly and lucidly surveys alternative approaches to studying
power and thereby illuminates various patterns of domination and of
resistance in contemporary societies, focusing on the political and
economic spheres.' Steven Lukes, London School of Economics
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