TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tom R. Burns
AU  - Peter M. Hall
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653020618
TI  - The Meta-Power Paradigm
T2  - Impacts and Transformations of Agents, Institutions, and Social Systems-- Capitalism, State, and Democracy in a Global Context
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02061-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045693
N2  - This work presents, elaborates, and illustrates what is arguably the most important concept in the social sciences: power. It focuses particularly on a major class of power phenomena, meta-power, that is, power over power, transformative and structuring power. This encompasses powers to establish, reform, and transform social systems (institutions, power hierarchies, cultural formations, and socio-technical and infrastructural systems). Understanding meta-power is essential to the effective analysis of the formation of societal structures, their dynamics and evolution. This collection presents numerous illustrations and case studies at local, meso, and macro levels, showing how meta-powering is mobilized and operates in different contexts. The book should be of particular interest to business and management researchers, anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, political scientists, and, of course, sociologists.
KW  - power and control, culture, social change, global issues, Yugoslavia, Power elites, Communist Eastern Europe
LA  - English
ER  -