| Titre | Pouvoir, cause et force | |
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| Auteur | François Chazel | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1974, 15-4 | |
| Page | 441-457 | |
| Résumé anglais |
François Chazel : Power, Causality and Force.
This article attempts to specify the major dimensions inherent in the concept of power. In the first section, the author doubts whether this concept should simply go into the same class as the notion of causality. He is thus led to question the relevance of Riker's distinction between two conceptions of power, each of which has a particular form of causality associated with it. In the second section, the author analyzes the relationships between power and force. After critically examining the positions of Bierstedt, Bachrach and Baratz, Parsons, he endeavors to show that power is a function of the mastery of force to the degree that force, outside of its naked manifestations, serves to establish the credibility of menaces and guarantee the application of less brutal sanctions. The article ends with an attempted definition which gives a privileged place to the fact a given social unit can, as the result of negative situational sanctions, reduce the courses of action open to other social units. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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