| Titre | Réflexions sur la conception parsonienne du pouvoir et de l'influence | |
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| Auteur | François Chazel | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1964, 5-4 | |
| Page | 387-401 | |
| Résumé anglais |
François Chazel : Thoughts on the Parsonian concept of power and influence.
The author questions the analogy established by Talcott Parsons between money, power and influence. In the Parsonian perspective power became a tool for exchange, its character was symbolic and necessarily legitimate : according to the author power is concrete capacity, based on mastery of strength and its existence precedes its lawful acknowledgment. Moreover, power is not, like money, an instrument for relations but establishes a particular type of human relation, the hierarchical relation of superior to subordonate. Influence also is not a symbolic tool, since it initiates an original category of human relations. Nevertheless, it proceeds by handling and manipulation of symbols ; so that it does play, as in the Parsonian theory a role of social integration. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1964_num_5_4_6386 |
