According to Social Support and Coercion Theory, What Does Coercion Refer to?
Men are destroyed by them, and others are raised to power, and others are rallied to a fighting cause, and wars are declared, and people driven from their homes. And after all this havoc has been wreaked, suddenly the phrase disappears and is powerful no more--indeed, is lost and forgotten and replaced past something else, very likely its exact opposite.... It is terrifying... Where, in all this, is truth.
---- Russell Davenport, The Dignity of Man
20.1 THE ESSENCE OF SOCIAL Ability
As pointed out in Chapter ix, what distinguishes social beliefs is an intentional orientation towards another self. This orientation takes the other self into account in one's acts, deportment, or practices.
Clearly, the essence of social power should be parallel: social power is a capacity to produce effects through some other self. Ability is physical and not social when purposely employed to affect some other actual without going through the other self; physical power practical in opposition to another's will is force, or what has been called "naked power." Getting a person to willfully give yous something is using social power. Just knocking them unconscious and taking something from them is the utilise of force. Social power works on the other's perceptions, dispositions, interests, will, and all the other aspects of a person'southward self. Physical power, nonetheless, disregards the other'due south cocky and uses physical ways to take or become any one wants.
Depending on what capabilities are employed, social power has dissimilar forms. These will be elaborated on in the following sections.
20.ii COERCIVE POWER
It is no wonder that a focus on coercion has tended to emphasize the coercive basis of the state and land relations, to the fail of the other basis of power such as competence, altruism, love, and rewards; that love and ability accept been seen as opposites, rather than essentially entwined; and that justice has been seen equally ideally independent of such power, rather than every bit based on effective ability.
To focus more specifically on ability equally coercion, consider ii individuals i and j and two interests x and y. Now both x and y can be negative or positive interests. That is, the underlying attitude may exist a positive "I want . . ." or a negative "I do not want. . . ." Let 10 exist positive for i and negative for j. For case, x may be j's wallet which i wants and which j does not want him to have.
For i to overcome j'southward negative interest ten, while fugitive strength, i must necktie 10 to another positive or negative involvement y, such that j volition on balance adopt ten to y. This tin be done by threatening that if j does non exercise x, then i will practice (or refrain from doing) y.
For example, a robber threatens to shoot (y) if i does not give him his wallet (x). Now a threat of sanction or deprivation of some kind is the usual mode in which one is coerced into manifesting a negative interest. For many, accepting official law is such a negative involvement manifested but because of the connected threat of sanctions if the law is cleaved.
Since a threat implies a negative interest y--that which i will do to j if j does not do x--this coercive situation for j is characterized by an inescapable linkage between ii alternative negative interests betwixt which he must choose. The outcome and then basically depends on the relative forcefulness of the ii negative interests. Betwixt your money or your life, the choice is clear. Between lying to captive a friend or a long jail term for oneself, the option is non so articulate.
Coercion is more a threat of some future sanction, still. A tortured spy can be threatened with boosted suffering unless he yields the desired information. Here, equally in kidnapping or posting bond, a deprivation is first applied, followed past a threat to continue (a negative interest y) if you exercise not accept the negative interest x (giving the secrets, paying a ransom, or actualization in court). This kind of coercive situation for j is likewise characterized by two negative interests between which he must choose.
In both situations of coercion, the threat of hereafter or connected deprivation, j'due south cocky is placed by i's threat between two powers, both of which are negative interests. And escape from this situation is explicitly or implicitly prevented by two barriers, as shown in Figure xx.i. In the Effigy the ii negative interests are shown as vectors bearing on the self. The length of the vectors indicating their forcefulness. Every bit shown, the interest in not existence shot far surpasses in strength the self'southward involvement in non giving up his money
As in all psychologically conflictful situations, when i is coerced he would prefer to "go out the field," to run away from the threat. But this may be blocked, as shown by the barrier in the effigy, by one'southward concrete weakness or past physical surround, thus forming a bulwark to escape. Some other possibility may be counteraction, such as grabbing for the gun, producing 1'southward own gun, calling for help, and so on, but this "escape route" also may non exist possible, forming another barrier. With these counteractions blocked, merely a selection betwixt the threat and need may be left, and the pick will depend on which of these two negative interests is stronger.
Negative wants are outside powers begetting on the cocky; they are powers imposing undesired goals, as shown in Effigy 20.1. Positive wants, the interests that the self would gratify were no other interests in disharmonize, are then powers moving out from the self. When being robbed, both "escaping from the field" and others counteractions are positive interests, and thus moving outward. If positive interests are blocked, as in the figure, one must cull between negative interests. Then the choice will depend on which negative vector is strongest. In this case y is the stronger negative interest, the more powerful "I do not want . . . ," and thus x would be chosen over y by i.
Annotation that coercive power confronts the self with a double negative bind. Nonetheless, the self has a choice, even if between 2 evils, and therefore chooses willfully. A coerced individual's will is free, and in this lies the smashing unpredictability of coercion. On the other hand, forcefulness is anticipated: a person hit on the head hard plenty volition exist immobilized; enough policemen tin carry a person resisting abort into the wagon; a person's opposition tin can be eliminated past killing him. But in coercion, a self faced with ii negative alternatives controls the final choice.
Even so, the choice of an interest 10 tin be fabricated more probable by increasing the power (negative involvement) of y. We practise non know what j volition do if i demands he turn over military secrets (x) or be shot (y). He may be a patriot. Honor or self-esteem may merely not allow him to betray his land to save himself. Simply, if j is threatened with the slow torture and execution of his family and is himself undergoing torture, his option of 10 becomes more probable.
In total, then, one form social power takes is coercion. And I can at present define coercive power as a capability to threaten a person into choosing i undesirable beliefs over another. The success of coercive power depends on the force of the barriers against escaping the threat and the strength of the two negative interests. If one negative interests is much stronger than accepting the threat, then coercion may be defeated. For example, a Pw threatened with existence shot if he doesn't divulge military secrets (a threat from which there is no escape), so he may say "Never! Become ahead, kill me."
My discussion of coercion has so far emphasized its nature as ability, but non its psychological ground. Compulsion is fundamentally a coupling of expectations and motivations; information technology works through some other's expectations to affect his interests.
The nature of a negative want depends not only on j'south attitudes, but also on how he perceives it; on his other attitudes, self-esteem and superordinate goal; on his temperament, abilities (the negative want may be unintelligible, as may be the command in English "Put your hands upwards" to a captured Chinese soldier), mood, state (he may be besides sick to reply), and will. In curt, a negative want does non stand alone: the psychological field of coercion involves fundamentally some other's behavioral dispositions and his expectations. His bodily behavior, and then, is a weighting of these dispositions within the coercive situation by his associated expectations of the outcomes.
The success of coercion, the relative attribute of coercive power, is and then a office of these ii variables: a person's behavioral dispositions, which is the negative interest ten transformed through the person's psychological field; and his expectations, which relate negative interest y to x within this dynamic field. This success will depend not only on the forcefulness of the negative interest, but too on the credibility of its threatened manifestation--the expectation that the threat volition be carried out. If an indulgent parent uses hollow threats to keep his children in line, they soon will ignore the threats: the parent'southward coercive ability over the child will exist weak. Brownie is a crucial concept in understanding coercive power, for the degree to which some other expects a threat to be carried out determines how seriously the negative involvement will be taken. If the threat is incredible, then from j's perspective in that location is no compulsion, for he has no opposing culling negative interests to cull betwixt.
Coercion is a posing of linked negative interests ten and y (as in "your money or your life") such that if x (your money) is not manifested, then the threatened y (your loss of life) will follow. If the threat is perceived as empty (if the robber is a delicate boy with a toy gun), then there is no coercion. Since the negative interest y has no forcefulness, only x (giving him your coin) remains, and this tin be ignored. An incredible threat provides a tertiary choice: ignoring both alternatives.
Hither is the eye around which swirls much of the tactics and strategy of disharmonize. How does i make his threats appear credible so that his coercive power is effective? How does one deter or compel others? Surely, such is strengthened by making irrevocable commitments, developing a reputation for executing threats when called, making merely reasonable threats, forming coalitions to dorsum ane's threats, so on. Information technology is non my concern here to bargain with such topics,
To conclude, I have pointed out the following:
(1)We tin can define a person'southward negative interest equally some goal he does not want in some circumstance and the strength of this feeling or desire against it.
(2)Compulsion is then the intentional generation of ii culling negative interests between which a person must choose, where one is generated past a threat in social club to make the other a likely choice.
(3)The beingness and success of coercion, its effectiveness, depends on the--expectations of the threatened negative interests beingness manifested--the threat's credibility.
20.3 BARGAINING POWER
Consider again 2 individuals i and j and now ii positive interests x and y, each being of the grade "I want. . . ." Let the situation be such that for i to gratify one interest, he must surrender the other. For example, in guild to buy a new car (one positive involvement) y'all must requite up considerably money (another positive interest). To get money, you must give up some of your time to piece of work. To develop a skill, yous must devote considerable time to practise. And so on. Our lives are full of such trade-offs. Only in heaven are all our positive interests satisfied, and in hell denied.
Bargaining power involves two people having positive wants they tin commutation. Each can forgo the gratification of one want in exchange for the other. Such exchange relationships not only refer to appurtenances and money, but any positive interests whatsoever. Thus, a girl may yield to a boy'southward overtures in render for his promise of love; a homo may provide some other with security in return for deference; a colleague may be highly supportive in return for similar support. All these are positive interests or in economical terms, goods.
To clarify the bargaining situation, consider Effigy 20.2a, which shows two individuals i and j and their positive interests x and y, which are projected as vectors from each cocky towards the other. The length of each vector measures the forcefulness of each interest, that is, how much each wants to gain (x for i and y for j) and how much each is willing to requite upwards (y for i and ten for j) accordingly. For instance, if x is a radio and y cash, then the vectors would testify how much cash (y) i is willing to give up to purchase a radio (x) from j. and how much greenbacks (y) j wants to requite upwardly the radio (x).
If the points of the 10 and y vectors touch as in Figure twenty.2a, then in that location is just one determinant solution to the deal. What one is willing to give up to gratify another interest, the other wants to gain for giving upwardly the interest. There is no other commutation solution; each is equally satisfied and both have equal bargaining power. It is irrelevant how an outsider views this exchange or whether i party thinks he is getting a better deal. If one is exchanging ten strings of beads for one thou acres, and if this is the bargain where the interests of each touch, then they accept equal bargaining power. Incidentally, this is not an abstract instance. Some have given up tens of thousands of dollars in money (which could buy hundreds of acres of land) for a small stone--a diamond.
However, equally often is the case, there may exist overlap in the interests of 2 people, as shown in Figure 20.2b.
For instance, allow u.s.a. say in looking for a new house you see a suitable one that you and your mate both decide is worth as much as $40,000, a sum you could handle in your budget. The owner, withal, is asking for $38,000. Knowing that the initial price on a home is ever negotiable, yous offer $34,000. Finally, afterward bargaining, yous both agree on $36,500. Since you were willing and able to get $40,000, you had more bargaining ability than the owner in this situation: you lot paid less than y'all were willing to pay; the owner received less than he could take had.
In sum, a person has bargaining power if he can exchange his interests with others; he has greater power than another if he gets more for less than he was willing to surrender.
Note the similarity in bargaining and coercive power. Both work through another self. Both involve two alternative interests tied together. Coercion, however, involves two negative interests; bargaining, ii positive. In coercion, i generates a negative involvement to cause another to select a connected undesirable culling; in bargaining, ane generates a positive interest to crusade another to select information technology over a connected desirable alternative.
Psychologically, how do coercion and bargaining compare? Coercion works through expectations. By posing a credible threat of something unwanted, one tries to go another to select an alternative negative interest. In bargaining, still, 1 uses promises of rewards rather than threats of deprivations; one hopes to induce another to accept the advantage in exchange for another positive interest. And as in coercion, credibility is crucial: a person by reputation, previous behavior, commitments, or capability must show that he tin can and will follow through on his promises.
Before moving on, I should stress the domain of bargaining power. This form of power is often confused with economic commutation, such equally in bartering possessions or ownership and selling goods and services. This is only one arena for bargaining power. The domain of bargaining power comprises all social relations. It is present in the exchange of status deference for protection, sex activity for security, or agreement for promotion. It is involved in the substitution of compliments, greetings, dinner invitations, messages. Indeed, it underlies all social exchange, all situations of social reciprocity.
Implicit in social exchange is a promise of a reward in exchange for some activity. The hope need not be enunciated, but may be implicit in the other's field of expression or in the social relationship. Economic exchange is usually explicit ("I'll give you v dollars for that book"), only this does non constitute a difference of kind, simply of caste. The same form of power is involved, every bit in "I'll scratch your back, if you'll scratch mine." The commonality is the presence of some common positive interests x and y, such that i person can substitution ten for y and some other y for x.
twenty.4 INTELLECTUAL POWER
Noesis is ability.
---- Francis Bacon, De heresibus
One manifests both coercive and bargaining ability through the generation of an alternative interest by creating the expectation of deprivations or rewards. Not all social power, withal, involves alternative interests.
When we persuade some other to do something we want because we have made their interest articulate to them, this is a course of ability. For instance, you have intentionally afflicted another self if by reason yous persuade him that he should always obey the law because either in his moral scheme it's wrong not to, or because of the consequences for all if each takes it upon himself to make up one's mind what law is to exist obeyed. You accept not generated an alternative interest; you have antiseptic his interests to him.
We not only persuade people to do (or not to practice) something, only we may persuade them most what is true or faux, right or incorrect, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. In any of these cases, persuasion is the generation of understanding, ideas, or beliefs that clarifies one's pick of interests. Persuasion may cause another to alter their mind, or their preferences among interests, to, say, go to college rather than join the army. But this does not constitute bargaining or coercion, since no commutation human relationship is involved, except insofar as you show that a person's previous preferences would lead to deprivations or less advantage.
The basis of persuasive ability is intellectual. Expertise, logic, intelligence, knowledge, exact and numerical fluency surely play a part in convincing others of the correctness of our view. Of course, conformity with the evidential norms governing the interests in question is too required. Fifty-fifty an ordained minister tin can hardly await to persuade a scientist about the revealed truth of an empirical proposition.
Psychologically, persuasion focuses on the interests of another. Recall that an involvement is an attitude plus its strength to be manifest. And the attitude's ingredients are state of affairs, self, want, and goal. Persuasion, then, works on the cognitive connexion between situation, want, and goal, as they are linked to each other and to other attitudes, in order to modify the strength of an attitude. The goal of ane attitude may persuasively exist shown more than instrumental to a higher goal than other attitudes ("College graduates earn a higher lifetime income than non higher graduates") or a particular goal tin exist argued to be gratified through another attitude ("Bring together the army and see the world"). Or attitudes may be brought to life past stimulating the relevant underlying needs. These unlike means of persuading, chosen advertising, propagandizing, converting, proselytizing, convincing, brainwashing, and seducing, are a means to modify the balance amongst a person's interests--to strengthen some interests and weaken others.
Let me call this ability to persuade some other intellectual ability. This ability is a adequacy to persuade a person into assertive or doing something. .
xx.5 Authoritative POWER
Authority is ofttimes defined relative to a position, such as that of policeman, estimate, dominate, and so on.
The notion of legitimacy is important, for authority is more counterbalanced power; it is directed power which tin be employed (legitimately) only in channels defined by the norms of the group. A person holding such authority is commissioned; he does not simply accept the correct to dominion or govern--he is obliged to. Thus, authority emerges as a transformation of power in a procedure called "legitimation".
---- Emerson, 1962, p. 38
However, legitimacy is not just a function of role, but too of a person'south groundwork, apparel, and manner, axiomatic expertise and knowledge, and condition. For a drowning person to yell to me for help is legitimate, and I would answer with equally much help as I could requite. In this state of affairs, he has authority, every bit does a reader asking that I refrain from disturbing him in a library. It is legitimate for a recognized scholar of classical Greek to demand the testify for a critical comment I may have made on Plato, and I am obligated (past my ain values) to respond. A mathematician (not by position, but past training) asking for the derivation of my theorem has the legitimate power to exercise so. They have authority.
Thus, authority is non but associated with a role simply with a situation (a drowning person, a library). However, these senses of potency are still independent of the individual. Regardless of who is the constabulary officer or the gauge or the drowning person, his request is administrative. However, authority can likewise inhere in the private who because of his particular attainments or image can make legitimate requests or even commands.
Consider the charismatic leader. His ability comes from promising others a ameliorate future which evidently only he tin can achieve. He connects with the superordinate goals of others and holds out in his person their gratification. His commands are therefore just and proper routes to his, and thus their, success. Of course, such a person soon has an official function equally caput of a group, party, or regime. But this should non mask the source of main authority that is in the leader and non his position.
We thus have three kinds of authority: that associated with role; with situation; with the individual. Since they share a similar basis in legitimacy, they are aspects of administrative ability. Later I will emphasize a item aspect, as for example in defining class in relation to authoritative roles. However, the more than general concept of authoritative ability should be seen as encompassing these iii kinds and will suffice for my immediate purposes.
As described, and then, authoritative power is a capability to utilize legitimacy to convince a person to do something. It is understood that "legitimacy" is as seen in the other'due south perspective.
Psychologically, authorisation works through the superego. By virtue of person's field of expression, his wearable such as a uniform, or his station behind a desk, we culturally endow his requests or commands with legitimacy. Because of that cluster of attitudes defining what is right and incorrect, good and bad, in a moral or ethical sense, we feel that the person should be giving the states commands or making requests, and that we take an obligation to obey.
Authoritative power thus comprises ii interests. One, which may be positive or negative, is that commanded or requested. The other is the moral or ethic which endows the control or asking with legitimacy. Note the difference from bargaining, coercion, and persuasion. Persuasion involves changing the salience of an interest wholly through generating a re-evaluation of its constituents and human relationship to other interests; compulsion involves two alternative negative interests; bargaining two positive interests. In persuasion and authorisation, a negative interest may exist involved. One is persuaded, however, to practice what is undesired considering of the relationship of the event to one'south positive interests ("Drink your milk, sweetheart, and you'll abound up to be a healthy women") or considering information technology is shown to be the lesser of 2 evils ("If you lot don't work, yous must accept charity"). In dominance, one may be allowable to do something undesirable, but will practise it anyhow because one believes he should. Thus, the prison warden obeys the control to execute the prisoner sentenced to decease.
20.6 ALTRUISTIC POWER
Notwithstanding, a person who is loved past others has the power to intentionally touch on their interests merely by virtue of this love. Withal, when someone you love asks y'all to practise something, you do and so not because of persuasion or legitimacy or bargaining or coercion, simply because your loved one asks. Y'all want to practise whatsoever helps the other; together you form a whole and whatever interests the other, interests yourself. Two selves are united into one and then that an expressed interest--an "I want . . ." of ane is the interest of the other.
Thus, the ground of dear ability is no other than dearest itself: the unification of selves. It is no stimulation of a need solitary, such every bit sexual activity or security or protectiveness, no simple triggering of superego, no posing of alternative interest, no irresolute salience in an involvement. It is only love. Altruistic power is then a capability to use dearest to induce a person into doing something.
Now, such ability is not necessarily restricted to a person loved by the other. The other's beloved for humanity, his nation, or group tin induce such love based interests. Indeed, such interests are a basic force in social relations that serve as the basis for reform movements, ideologies, politics, and conflict.
The person who labors long for a welfare nib, who suffers through deprivations to promote communism, who gives upward all he owns to be a missionary in Africa, who demonstrates against the Vietnam State of war, or who goes to prison house to protestation a bad police force may act from altruism, a basic integrative feeling--a dearest--for humanity. This love, and not aggression, is one of the roots of mass conflict. It is because people want to do good that they sometimes fight others en masse, and not considering they are selfish or evil.
For now, however, I simply wish to point out that this love for others is a source of power. Those seeking power for themselves or their ideas tin tap this love through a political formula: a promised solution to humanity'south problems. Whether it be liberty, equality, justice, a communist utopia, democracy, Christianity, Islam, the welfare land, a minimum wage, eliminating tax loopholes, or foreign help, the formula promises to improve our lot. He who wields the formula then tin impact the interest of those who share its vision.
We exercise not be simply to manifest our selves. We besides live to aid others. Equally Adler noted decades ago, our self-esteem, our drive for perfection and completion, is not wholly selfish and egocentric. In the salubrious individual it is spring up with a social interest (Adler, 1970), with a goal of an ideal community, with a love that reaches out to unite with others. The one who controls the formula for achieving this has donating ability. For to serve his own ends or satisfy his ain vision, he tin can intentionally induce within others dear-based interests. Thus, people tin can be induced to confess crimes they have never committed for a crusade (such as happened in the Soviet purge trials of the 1930's), to bear faux witness against their friends, to turn in their relatives to the secret police force, and to impale. Indeed, what strength tin never do, what is beyond compulsion, and what cannot exist bartered away can be affected by love: the willing sacrifice of oneself.
Love, so, in the service of a higher crusade or another person, is the seat of inductive interests: of altruistic power. From where does this dearest come? One of our fundamental needs is protectiveness, the need to help others and protect them. This need, every bit bones as sex, hunger, and security, must exist the source of honey's free energy.
But love is not just a need that is gratified and temporarily satiated. It involves the total cocky, the gestalt, structure, and process that combine the dynamic psychological field. It manifests itself through the reaching out, the integrating with another, the uniting of selves. It involves the full field. This makes love then fundamentally bones and so powerful, wholly capturing the life--the soul--of a person. A person in honey cannot be distracted; a person working for humanity cannot be deflected. Love engages our total field and orients it towards love'south end.
twenty.7 MANIPULATIVE Power
Power tin can operate unseen in ii ways through command over the state of affairs and thus another's perceptions; and through control over what is possible, and thus over behavioral dispositions. Considering the starting time, parents oftentimes practice considerable ability over their children'south situation. By not allowing them to run into violence on television, keeping explicitly sexual cloth out of accomplish, and taking them to church every Lord's day, parents endeavor to touch their children'due south interests and behavior. Such manipulation is not limited to children and is carried to extremes under totalitarian governments, where rigid control over the media, people'due south movements, education, and then on bear upon what people perceive.
Power over perception is too an ingredient in social interaction. It is manifested by the person who does not tell another bad news, who employs symbols to project status (e.1000., Rolls Royce), who creates a seductive situation (soft music, low lights, wine), or who chooses the side of the court that places his tennis opponent with the sunday in his eyes. Indeed, this power is developed to a loftier degree in the fine arts and theater, where the goal is to create a specific situation influencing the perception, interests, and emotions of viewers in a particular way. So, of form, there is democratic politics, where the success of a politician and his policies depend in office on the image projected.
Not simply through manipulating the state of affairs, simply as well through actual control over opportunities does i affect another. Parents may avoid sending their children to a detail school for fear of the kind of group they may encounter; provide them with piano and art lessons to augment their opportunities; and transport them to college to ensure their later success. Administrators may set the rules of administrative appeal or hearings, which finer load the dice in his favor. He who sets the rules has power over the procedure.
Clearly, the form of social power manifested through command over perceptions or opportunities is a manipulative power. Such ability is a capability to command the state of affairs and opportunities of a person to cause him to exercise something. By controlling the situation, manipulative power works through another's perception. A person only responds to what he perceived, and thus by influencing his perception i affects his interests and behavior. Controlling opportunities, limiting or expanding a person's beliefs potentials, will affect his interests and dispositions.
It has been often said that coercion is the greatest evil, for we are given no choice simply two evils. Of class, this is an extreme generalization, since bringing up a child often requires compulsion to protect him confronting himself. Moreover, traffic laws, or those protecting belongings and the person, ultimately are based on coercion, and justifiably to the benefit of most people. Similarly, manipulation in certain contexts can exist justified. But as norms of behavior or as the rule of government, both coercive and manipulative power are to exist minimized. While sometimes necessary, they, like medicine with potentially dangerous side effects, should but be of last resort in human being affairs.
NOTES
* Scanned from Chapter 20 in R.J. Rummel, The Disharmonize Helix, 1976. For full reference to the book and the list of its contents in hypertext, click volume. The chapter has been extensively revised.1. Cf. the definitions by Lasswell and Kaplan (1950) and past Dahl (1957). Carroll (1972) has written a pointed analysis of this focus on power as say-so, and has suggested in its identify a more advisable concern with power as competence, security, and autonomy. These are close to what I call identive and assertive power.
2. The link betwixt power and expectations has been noted by others, such as Simon (1957) and Abramson et al. (1958). Parsons (1963, p. 256) treats ability as a symbolic medium "like money in that it is itself 'worthless,' simply is accepted in the expectation that it can later exist 'cashed in,' this time in the activation of binding obligations" (italics added). Parsons is talking about authoritative ability, every bit I define in Section 20.5.
3. The whole strategic literature of international relations deals with how to make one's coercive ability effective through apparent threats: thus is the essence of deterrence and compellance, the twin concerns of politico-military assay. See, for example, Schelling (1960; 1966).
For an splendid generalized discussion of such tactics and strategy, see Kuhn (1963, Chapters 17-19). Note that Kuhn subsumes what I call coercive ability under bargaining power, which I will consider next. By doing this he masks the important shift from the negative interests of coercive ability to the positive interests of bargaining. This departure between positive and negative interests is the gulf between open libertarian social relationships and closed coercive ones.
iv. This substantive analysis is like to that of Kuhn (1963), while the analytic framework is quite unlike. Moreover, Kuhn defines coercion as a bargaining power, while I make it a separate form birthday.
five. All this can be made more than specific by defining cyberspace bargaining power as the departure betwixt x and y vectors before the bargain, and the deal as the deviation between them agreed upon. And so by comparing the divergence betwixt the cyberspace for i and j to the bargain, an explicit statement about comparative bargaining ability could exist fabricated. But this degree of precision is unnecessary here and would be of no use to me later.
6. On social exchange and power, run into Blau (1967). My view of social substitution and the role of power in information technology is close to his. The major difference is that I include economical substitution, where Blau feels (p. 93) that social exchange "differs in important ways from strictly economic substitution. The bones and most crucial stardom is that social substitution entails unspecified obligations. The prototype of an economical transaction rests on a formal contract that stipulates the verbal quantities to be exchanged. The buyer pays $30,000 for a specific house, or he signs a contract to pay that sum plus interest over a menstruum of years. Whether the unabridged transaction is consummated at a given time, in which instance the contract may never be written, or not, all the transfers to be made at present or in the hereafter are agreed upon at the time of sale. Social exchange, in contrast, involves the principle that one person does another a favor, and while there is a general expectation of some future return, its exact nature is definitely non stipulated in accelerate." Given that Blau defines (p. 6) social exchange as "express to deportment that are contingent on rewarding reactions from others and that cease when these expected reactions are not forthcoming." I cannot see a meaningful distinction (for understanding social processes) in type between economic and social exchange. But there is a meaningful difference in caste of explicit promises and rewards.
I view economic relations and exchange every bit merely an attribute of the social field. Compartmentalization of the economic, the political, and the social which are based on an assumed divergence in structures, processes, and powers is unwarranted and misleading, particularly in understanding conflict.
vii. "The institutionalization of the normative order ... thus comes to focus in the concept of authorization. Authority is substantially the institutional code within which the use of power equally medium is organized and legitimized. It stands to power substantially as belongings, as an institution, does to money" (Parsons, 1963, p. 243).
On power, authorization and imperative control, come across Weber (1947, pp. 152-53 and p. 224ff). The translator of Weber equates "potency" with Weber'due south "Legitime Herrschaft," which is dominance in Parsons terms.
eight. Ane exception is Sorokin (1967). Oddly, Sorokin gives considerable weight to love, merely almost none to social or political ability itself. Note his index to Sorokin (1969), his major summary piece of work, does not list power. For him, power gets absorbed, somehow, at the supercultural organization level in the thou dynamics of meanings-values-norms. And at the individual level, the basis of interaction is love and differences and similarity in meanings, values, and norms.
9. See Bachrach and Baratz (1962). They indicate out that command over the rules of decision-making, rights of appeal, etc. is a confront of power. This would exist manipulative ability, in my terms.
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