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21A.129 Power: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Global Dimensions
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Not offered academic year 2024-2025Graduate (Spring)
(Subject meets with 11.045[J], 15.302[J], 17.045[J], 21A.127[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
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The study of power among individuals and within organizations, markets, and states. Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, explores the nature of dominant and subordinate relationships, types of legitimate authority, and practices of resistance. Examines how people are influenced in subtle ways by those around them, who makes controlling decisions in the family, how people get ahead at work, and whether democracies, in fact, reflect the will of the people. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
S. Silbey