Power and the Social

by Westwood; SALLIE

• ISBN13: 9780415162883
• ISBN10: 0415162882
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-02-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Power and the Sociallooks at the different ways power has been theorised from Hobbes to Giddens and at the ways in which the theories have been applied. By bringing together theory and substantive analysis, this invaluable introductory text provides a clear and imaginative account of power and power relations. Processes and structures of power are analysed within key areas of sociological concern, including: * the history of power * race * gender * class * sexuality * the spatial and visual. The book looks at a wide range of cases from across the globe, including the 'underclass' in Britain, the power of the military in Latin America , the untouchables in India and the politics of new reproductive technologies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
A brief history of power	5	(24)
Precursors to the modern period	7	(3)
The modern project	10	(2)
Marx and the Marxian legacy	12	(2)
Weber, Simmel and modern times	14	(2)
The sociological imagination	16	(3)
Nietzsche, Foucault and power	19	(3)
Power and violence	22	(2)
After Foucault	24	(1)
Modalities/sites	25	(4)
Racialised power	29	(16)
Race and modernity	29	(4)
Foucault, race and racism	33	(2)
Racialised identities	35	(2)
Racism and mental illness	37	(3)
Diasporic politics	40	(2)
Racialised power	42	(3)
Class and power	45	(18)
Marx and after	46	(2)
Social class	48	(1)
The making of the working class	49	(1)
The underclass	50	(3)
Welfare to work	53	(2)
Class and nation	55	(1)
Fordist production	56	(2)
On the shopfloor	58	(2)
Class and power	60	(3)
Engendered power	63	(18)
Feminist politics: against coercion, constraint and violence	63	(5)
Disrupting woman	68	(3)
Foucault and feminism	71	(2)
Men and masculinities	73	(4)
The personal is political	77	(3)
Engendered power	80	(1)
Sexualised power	81	(18)
Marx, capitalism and seduction	81	(3)
Sexual citizenship	84	(2)
Sexual politics	86	(2)
Sexing the social	88	(2)
Regulating sexualities	90	(3)
Sex and violence	93	(2)
Sexual harassment	95	(1)
Sexualised power	96	(3)
Spatial power	99	(16)
Nations, territories and borders: landscapes of power	100	(5)
The politics of space	105	(2)
Spatiality	107	(2)
The politics of belonging	109	(3)
Spatial power	112	(3)
Visual power	115	(18)
Visible nations	116	(3)
Miracles: seeing is believing	119	(2)
Consumption	121	(2)
Televisual powers	123	(3)
Art and power	126	(2)
The social and the visual	128	(3)
Visual power	131	(2)
Conclusion: Power and the social	133	(8)
Appendix: major theorists of power	141	(4)
Further reading	145	(2)
Bibliography	147	(12)
Index	159