Thursday's reading
Thursday's reading is "Beyond the Three Faces of Power: A Realist Critique" by Jeffrey Isaac. It is in the Journal Polity, volume 20, Issue #1, Autumn 1987, pp. 4-31.It can be found, like the Bachrach and Baratz articles, in JSTOR.
I recommend logging in to the library from the off campus proxy (if you're off campus) and selecting databases, and choosing JSTOR.
The easiest way is to choose "Browse" and select the journal by title and go straight to the issue, but it's easy enough to craft a search to find it as well.
posted by David Watkins @ 8:28 PM
1 Comments:
I really enjoyed the Isaac reading because he was able to take a step back from a "microscopic" view and see things in a "macroscopic" view. By this, I mean that he looks at the structures and relationships created by those structures instead of simply the relationship between A & B. This was interesting to me because if it is the structures and institutions themselves that control the way power is exerted between A & B, then how much power do we actually weild individually if we chose to reside in said societies? Power then, is deliniated by the social structure, and not on an individual basis.
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