Items related to Beyond the Power Mystique: Power As Intersubjective...

Beyond the Power Mystique: Power As Intersubjective Accomplishment - Softcover

 
9780791440704: Beyond the Power Mystique: Power As Intersubjective Accomplishment
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Despite the considerable attention given to 'power' by foundational sources such as Machiavelli, Hobbs, Weber, Durkheim, and Marx, and those social theorists who have built on their works, surprisingly little attention has been given to the study of power as an enacted feature of community life. Locating power more directly within a symbolic interactionist framework, Beyond the Power Mystique not only enables scholars to permeate much of the mystique shrouding power but, explicitly viewing power as intersubjective accomplishment, the material presented here fosters a research agenda that is highly attentive to the collectively articulated aspects of power relations. Consideration is given to the ways in which power is brought into existence, implemented, experienced, sustained, objectified, resisted, dissipated, and reconstituted in actual practice. Addressing the full range of associations occurring in all human arenas, from small group settings to large scale theaters of operations, this volume provides a conceptually viable means of synthesizing so-called "macro" and "micro" realms of power. Prus considers people's definitions of, and routings into, situations of power, as well as the dilemmas they face, the strategies they assume, and the limitations they encounter as they enter into interchanges with others on both more individualized and collectively coordinated bases and in both long-term and more situated instances.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
"This book will become a 'must have' item for many sociologists and practitioners. I am most impressed with Prus's keen understanding of the processual nature of human reality. He has brought us face-to-face with the intersubjective, providing a much needed return to empirical questions that are grounded in 'lived experience.' Prus's grasp of the theoretical underpinnings of interactionism, along with his deep knowledge of power processes, highlights the important contributions ethnographic investigations have been making all along and will continue to make." -- Lori Holyfield, University of Arkansas

"Prus shows a great insight into the subject and offers a first-rate, often unique and imaginative, analysis of power. His lists of steps, stages, features, and/or subprocesses associated with a host of social phenomena will, undoubtedly, guide future researchers in their investigations of social life. They strike me as unique constructions that provide clear evidence of his well-developed ethnographer's eye for the complexity of social processes." -- Thomas J. Morrione, Colby College
About the Author:

Robert Prus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is also the author of Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research: Intersubjectivity and the Study of Human Lived Experience and, Subcultural Mosaics and Intersubjective Realities: An Ethnographic Research Agenda for Pragmatizing the Social Sciences, both published by SUNY Press.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Shipping: £ 6.99
Within United Kingdom

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780791440698: Beyond the Power Mystique: Power as Intersubjective Accomplishment

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780791440698
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1999
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Prus, Robert C.
Published by State Univ of New York Pr (1999)
ISBN 10: 0791440702 ISBN 13: 9780791440704
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Revaluation Books
(Exeter, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.25x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0791440702

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 27.21
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 6.99
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Robert C. Prus
ISBN 10: 0791440702 ISBN 13: 9780791440704
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
THE SAINT BOOKSTORE
(Southport, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9780791440704

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 34.20
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Robert Prus
ISBN 10: 0791440702 ISBN 13: 9780791440704
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
CitiRetail
(Stevenage, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Locating power within the symbolic interactionist framework, this book permeates much of the mystique shrouding "power" and examines the ways in which notions of power, control, influence and the like are brought into human existence. Locating power within the symbolic interactionist framework, this book permeates much of the mystique shrouding "power" and examines the ways in which notions of power, control, influence and the like are brought into human existence. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780791440704

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 35.99
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds