LS366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Corporate Social Responsibility, Hard Power, Hegemony
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Ls 366 - january 14-16 - hegemony & power in global governance. Direct power over another, direct interactions b/w specific actors. May involve use of coercion institutional: power mediated through entities like govt"s, international orgs. , religious groups & corporations. Attract compliance because actors perceive it to be in their interest. More indirect co-operative in nature, depend on some form of legitimacy and at least passive support structural: power as experienced b/w actors within specific social structure. Ex; b/w labour and capital in an economic rls. , b/w a civilian and police. Direct, co-operative, power works through social relations of constitution. Productive: ways in which social identities and norms are created and contested in society indirect, works through diffuse constitutive relations to produce the situated social capacities of actors. Soft power is generated only in part by what the govt". does through its policies and public diplomacy. Hard power: use of economic incentives or military strength to influence other actors" behaviours.