SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collective Action, Stanley Milgram, Relative Deprivation
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Presence of organized power is a feature of all known societies thus far. Institutional forms change but the domination of others is persistent. Domination never appears without resistance to it. To the exercise of unwanted power is a constant in every society. Pilfering steal because of low wages. Organized into collective social action, social movements, insurrections, rebellions and revolutions. Can be coercive and harsh or subtle. Socio-political power - social relationships confer power and social institutions authorize it. Authorized socio-political power - official top-down power. Unauthorized socio-political power from below - oppositional bottom-up power. Parenti not merely interpersonal, some gain and some lose in systematic ways. Even if the gains and losses are not intended social structure and organization is important. Social sciences tend to look at the system of power. By looking at the organization of society itself. The organization or its economy and polity. Parenti (cid:3247)the crucial question is not (cid:3243)who governs(cid:3244) but (cid:3243)what governs(cid:3244)(cid:3248) (p 13)
