Power: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Global Dimensions

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Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. The Communist Manifesto . New York, NY: Penguin, 2002. ISBN: 9780140447576.

Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780804717625.

Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 9781560008224.

Cuba, Lee. Writing About Social Science . New York, NY: Longman Press, 2001.

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Introduction, Opening Discussion

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Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 9781560008224.

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Goffman, Erving. Asylums . Garden City, NY: Anchor books, 1961. ISBN: 9780385000161.

Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996, pp. 21-34. ISBN: 9781560008224.

Rustow, Dankwart A. “The Study of Leadership.” In Philosophers and Kings: Studies in Leadership . Edited by Dankwart A. Rustow. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1970, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 9780807605394.

Tucker, Robert C. “The Theory of Charismatic Leadership.” In Philosophers and Kings: Studies in Leadership . Edited by Dankwart A. Rustow. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1970, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 9780807605394.

Weber, Max. “Charisma.” In On Charisma and Institution Building . Edited by S. N. Eisenstadt. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Lec #: 13-14 · TOPICS: Authority (1): The Ability to Command · Readings/Films: Wrong, Dennis. Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996, pp. 35-83. ISBN: 9781560008224.

Denby, David. “Aristotle.” Great Books . New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 117-127. ISBN: 9780684809755.

———. “Machiavelli.” Great Books . New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 194-201. ISBN: 9780684809755.

———. “Hobbes and Locke.” Great Books . New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 206-220. ISBN: 9780684809755.

———. “Marx.” “Hobbes and Locke.” Great Books . New York, NY: Touchstone, 1996, pp. 338-352. ISBN: 9780684809755.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. “How a Prince Must Act In Order to Gain Reputation.” The Prince . New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1999, pp. 110-113. ISBN: 9780451527462.

Hobbes, Thomas. The Leviathan . pp. 344-261.

———. “Preface.” A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy . New York, NY: International Publishers, 1979. ISBN: 9780717800414.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. “That Aristocracy May be Engendered by Manufactures.” Democracy in America . New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780451528124.

Michels, Robert. “Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy.” Political Parties . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 9780765804693.

Weber, Max. “Class, Status and Party,” and “Three Types of Legitimate Rule.” Theory of Social and Economic Organization . New York, NY: Free Press, 1964. ISBN: 0684836408.

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Bachrach, Peter, and Morton Baratz. “Two Faces of Power.” Power and Poverty; Theory and Practice . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1970.

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Peller, Gary. “Reason and the Mob: The Politics of Representation.” Tikkun Magazine 2, no. 3 (1987): 28-31, and 92-95.

Scott, Joan Wallace. “The Pitfalls of ‘Scientific’ Feminism.” Tikkun Magazine 4, no. 2 (March 1989): 90-91.

Fallows, James. “The Case Against Credentialism.” The Atlantic Monthly (December 1985): 49-67.

Lec #: 21-22 · TOPICS: Bureaucratic Organizations and Entrepreneurial Corporations · Readings/Films: Herzfeld. The Social Production of Indifference . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780226329086.

Silbey, Susan. “Let Them Eat Cake.” Law and Society Review 31, no. 2 (1997): 207-236.

Sasson, Saskia. The Global City . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 3-34. ISBN: 9780691078663.

Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power . New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780140092332. (Excerpts)

Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780804717625. (Excerpts)

Lec #: 25-26 · TOPICS: The Possibilities of Resistance · Readings/Films: Ewick, and Silbey. “Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Law.” American Journal of Sociology 108, no. 6 (May 2003): 1328-72.