POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power
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Main Theories of Power

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What you see here is a page of my hypertext book POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power. Initially empty, this page will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! 
This page will briefly introduce main theories of power proposed by various scholars and list books associated with these theories. It will include links to pages on this website where these theories and corresponding books will be explored in more detail. 

Marxist theory 
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​False consciousness – 

Ideology – 

Ideological state apparatus  – Louis Althusser 

(Cultural) hegemony – Gramsci 

Traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic power – Weber

"Power is everywhere" 
– 
Foucault (fluid power, biopower, power/knowledge)

Habitus – Bourdieu 

Choice, freedom - Satrte [paradox - we have to choose even if we don't want to choose, we are condemned to freedom]


Wrong, D. H. (1996). Power: Its forms, bases, and uses. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

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For theories related to other relevant concepts see: free will, social system, status quo, agency vs. structure, responsibility, and blame, right, entitlement, voice, influence 

  • About
  • Introduction
  • Browse the book
    • Completed pages
    • All the pages alphabetically >
      • A >
        • Absolute power
      • B >
        • Benefits of understanding power
        • Binary thinking
        • Buddhism
      • C >
        • Circumstances and Power
        • Choice
        • Choosing meanings
        • Corrupted by power
      • D >
        • Discovering your power
      • E >
        • Empowerment
      • F >
        • Foucault's "power is everywhere"
        • Free will
      • G >
        • Gender and power
      • H >
        • Having power and using power
        • How everybody is powerful
        • How everybody is powerless
      • I >
        • Improving mental abilities
        • In control
        • Inequality
        • Influencing each other
        • Intentionality and power
      • L >
        • Language has power over us
        • Limited resources
        • Louis XIV and Absolute Power
      • M >
        • Macropower: Collective Power
        • Main theories of power
        • "May" power
        • Meanings of power that are not directly related to social power
        • Meanings
        • Micropower: Individual power
        • Mindfulness
        • Media and Digital Literacy as Forms of Individual Power
        • Mental power
        • (Mis)understanding of power in media texts
        • Money and Power
        • My synesthetic perception of "power"
      • P >
        • Power and knowledge
        • Power as ability
        • Power as a chess game
        • Power as influence
        • Power vs. powerlessness
        • "Power" in language
        • Physical power
        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
      • R >
        • Responsibility, blame and power
      • S >
        • Self-awareness and power
        • Snapshot power
        • Synonyms of power
      • T >
        • Theory of micro- and macropower
      • U >
        • Using power is rewarding
      • V >
        • Vector power
      • W >
        • What is power?
        • Willpower
  • Author
    • My creative process