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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      September 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511490255
      9780521780797
      9780521785648
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490255
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 226 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
      Series:
      Contemporary Political Theory
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
    Series:
    Contemporary Political Theory
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    In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a 'face', she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, institutions - which define both the field of action and the individual's freedom within it, for the 'powerful' and 'powerless' alike. Hayward suggests that the critical analysis of power relations should focus on the ways these relationships affect people's capacities to help shape the institutions and practices which govern their lives. Using a detailed comparative analysis of the relationships within two ethnically diverse educational settings - one in a low-income, predominantly African-American, urban school, the other in an affluent, predominantly white, suburban school - this book develops a compelling account of the concept of power in terms of networks of practices and relations.

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    "Hayward provides an important contribution to the problem of how to study the power of norms and institutional structures." American Political Science Review

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