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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Essentialism definition | Everything has a single essence. Often paints over internal diversity |
| Anti-essentialism definition | View that everything has more than one essence. When we can break something into its essences and internal contradictions, we perform analysis |
| Legalism view | human society is fundamentally chaotic, brutal, violent, and needs punitive state to address it and keep it in check |
| What is power | Crossroads of agency and structure. Agency=ability to do what you want to do. Structure=social forces that allow/constrain your ability to do what you want to do |
| Pairings of Power | Power Over, Power To, Power as a System, Power as Relational, Power as Domination, Power as Actions, Power as Empowerment |
| Power Over | "A has power over B to the extent A can get B to do something B would otherwise not do".ability to exercise power determined through authority |
| Authority definition | socially sanctioned power seen as legitimate by the people it is exerted over, and is not often resisted. 3 kinds |
| What are the 3 kinds of authority | Traditional, charismatic, legal-rational |
| Traditional authority | history-based.Pope, academics and academia, community elders |
| Charismatic authority | Personality-based. Someone has authority based on own personal attributes, or perceptions of them |
| Legal-rational authority | rules-based. We accept someone's power because the rules dictate we must. Legal frameworks |