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SOCIOLOGY OF POWER

This course explores the concept of power and how it structures societies through social, political and economic institutions and ideological narratives. It examines historically constructed relationships of dominance and subordination as well as resista

Essay 1 Political, Economic or Global Power

Global Sociology
ISBN: 9781479800766
Inequality and Power by Eric A. Schutz
ISBN: 9780415554800
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
The New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781400843138
Publication Date: 2012-05-06
Power and Influence in Organizations
ISBN: 0761908609
The Powers to Lead by Jon Butler; Grant Wacker
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780198044291
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
Sociology of the European Union by Virginie Guiraudon (Editor); Adrian Favell (Editor)
ISBN: 9780230207110
Publication Date: 2011-03-15
Structure of Social Stratification in the United States
ISBN: 0205278353
Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich
ISBN: 0307265617
Publication Date: 2007-09-04
Understanding the Dynamics of Global Inequality by Alexander Lenger (Editor); Florian Schumacher (Editor)
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ISBN: 9783662447666
Publication Date: 2014-12-03

How Governmental Policy is Made
Explores how the ideas for governmental policy emerge and what it takes to get them adopted. Content is based primarily on Michigan, which has a full-time legislature. While concepts are relevant to other states and the national level, details may differ.