Power In Modern Societies

An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsen's Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state. Each of the book's sections is introduced with an essay by the editors. Designed as a text for courses on political sociology, social stratification, and power in society, the anthology offers classical and contemporary, theoretical and empirical writings.