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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

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Below is a selection of lecture notes that approximate chronologically the topics and themes listed on the calendar. Lecture notes are not available for every session. During the fall of 2005, Aayesha Siddiqui took these notes especially for OpenCourseWare.


Lec #Topics
1Introduction, Opening Discussion (PDF)
2How do we Study or do Social Science? (PDF)
3Continue Elaborating Definition of Power as Capacity to Produce Intended and Foreseen Effects on Others (PDF)
4Film Showing: "Obedience and Conformity"
5Continue Elaboration of the Definition of Power, Begin Discussion of What Power is Not: Influence and Conformity (PDF)
6Film Showing: "Triumph of the Will" (2 hours)
7Conformity and Influence, Then Introduction of Three Forms of Power: Manipulation, Persuasion and Force (PDF)
8Force (cont.) (PDF)
9Personal Power, Charisma, Leadership (PDF)
10Charisma, Video of Reputedly Charismatic Leaders' Speeches (PDF)
11Explaining Power Differentials, from Classical Theory (PDF)
12Classical Theories of Power, How do Differentials in Power Arise? (PDF)
13How do Power Differential Arise? From Social Organization (PDF)
14How do Power Differentials Arise: Lessons from Classical Social Theory (cont.), Review of Last Class: Max Weber (PDF)
15How do Differentials in Power Arise? Lessons from Social Theory (cont.) (PDF)
16How do Power Differentials Arise? Lessons from Social Theory, Marx (cont.) (PDF)
17How is Power Institutionalized? Foucault (PDF)
18How is Power Institutionalized and Exercised? (PDF)
19Power Institutionalized (PDF)
20Power Institutionalized, Concluded, Transformations in Authority in Modern World (PDF)
21Transformations in Location and Sources of Authority, Examples of Professional Authority
22Transformations in Location and Sources of Authority (cont.) (PDF)
23Professional Authority and Cultural Hegemony (PDF)
24Professional Authority and Cultural Hegemony (cont.): Deconstruction and Postmodern / Post / Structuralism (PDF)
25Post-Modernism, Postmodernity and Power (cont.) (PDF)
26Conclusion on Postmodernism / Postmodernity, Class Discussion (PDF)
27Concluding Observations, Comments (PDF)



Prof. Silbey's Supplemental Materials


The Sources, Structure, and Transformation of Power (PDF)#

Power Pyramid (PDF)#

Intentions in Definition of Power and Symbols (PDF)#


 








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