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  • January 28, 2022
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Political Sociology
o Coercive power
 Power is enabling or disabling
o A person always has some form of power
324  All forms of power are embodied
o Gender
o Class
o Race
Section 1
o Culture
Lecture 1: Introduction o Socio-economic standing
o Age
Political Sociology o Nationality

 The study of power
o Focus on the distribution of power Sources of Power
 Sociological Imagination  Military
 Questions:  State
o Is power a large scale or small phenomena  Economic
 Happening on micro, meso, and macro o Marx, Smith
levels  Technological
 Power as the freedom to choose how to act o E.g. drones
o Power influences/ imposes on this freedom
 Legislative
o E.g. The state has the power to define and influence o Contracts
our freedom o Legal
 Narratives of power play a role
o Laws
o How power is described
 Social Norms
o How we refer to and understand power
 Forms of Authority
 Social pressures also influence our freedom  Media (social)
o Act as a form of power  Mass action and social movements
 State as a source of power  Institutions
o State has power over legal system (also a source of
power) Power that I have over others:

, Voting
 Peers
 Social media
 Family
 Subordinates

Power over me:

 State
 Banks and financial institutions
 Employers
 Economy
 Legal system
 University
 Parents/family
 Media
 Leaders
 Institutions
 Religion

,Lecture 3: 19th March Social basics of power
Distribution of Power within Society  Social basiss power
o Collective resources that individuals/groups
mobilize to promote change
Reading  Who takes action?
 Kourvetaris  Who is mobilized?
 Mobilization:
o “process of forming crowds, groups, associations,
Defining Power and organisations for the pursuit of collective goals”
Oberschall (1973:102)
 There are difficulties present in defining power
 Its is not enough to possess resources of power, you need
 Power to control and capacity to influence others whether
to be able to use them effectively
they want to comply or not
o Positive or negative
 Who has a surplus or deficit of power?
o Intentional or unintentional
 All groups in society have power
o To what extent can you mobilise this to bring o Consciously or unconsciously
around social and political change o Small or large groups
 Most societies have a power structure/ hierarchy  E.g. political democracy: voters = important source of power
o State has surplus of power
o Minority groups have deficit of power 
 Tangible resources: those that can be quantified, measure,
 E.g. unemployed, impoverished, women,
observed and categorized and typically has a monetary
etc
value
 Economics, class, gender, ethnicity, race, age, religion are all
o Tradeable power
factors that result in power dynamics (less or more)
o Titles such as Professor have hierarchical power o Money
o Access is a form of power o Property
 Access to decision-making processes o Information
o People (mass)
o Knowledge
o Social status
 Intangible resources: those that can’t be observed, tested
or measured in terms of financial value

, o A person’s will/ influence/persuasive power  Manipulation: concealed (half-truths that make you
 Competency, reputation, respect, moral, behaviour in certain way)
leadership, honour, one’s character o Psychological form of power
o Influence access to power and people in power  Politicians in form of propaganda
o Advertisements, media,
Forms: of Social Power
o Selective info that pressurizes you to act in a certain
 Force: physical or psychological way or think a certain way
o Utilitarian: reward  Power in relation to making somebody else comply
 Inducement or compensation when  Authority: institutionalised and legitimised form of power
recipient gets desired benefits for o Notion of command
compliance o Have to obey
 Tradeable o Right to tell you to do something
o Coercive: punishment o Linked to legitimate power
 Prevalent in SA o No resistance
 Forcing you to do something because if you o Rewards or influence
don’t you will suffer some time of loss o Ability to threaten
 Ostracized, punished, loss of o Position holds the power (not the person)
benefits o Legal-rational authority
o Persuasive: convince o Having authority must be attributed to
 Messages used to convince impersonality and legitimacy
 Motivations, values, ideas, etc changed to o Authority in modern states, state holds ultimate
comply authority
 Persuasion  Make rules and have coercive power
o Messages to convince o States without strong military or police cannot
o Different from manipulation enforce laws and behaviour affectively
o Influenced by speakers power and personal o Use of power distinguishes type of state
characters  Totalitarian, authoritarian, democratic
o Stir up emotions  Power attached to the position and not the person
o CONVINCING ARGUMENTS via evidence o However if you are no longer in a position of power,
 Knowledgeable persons they still have power via status, position, ability to
influence decision-making

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