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7 - Questioning Consensus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

Henrik Enroth
Henrik Enroth
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Linnaeus University (Sweden)
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In this chapter and the next, I describe and analyze critical analyses of power and domination, starting in the late 1950s with the power research of Floyd Hunter and C. Wright Mills. After these efforts, the problem of social order could no longer be plausibly addressed by reference to community, consensus, or consent to authority. Instead, social order came to look like a structural or systemic effect of power or domination.

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community powerpower eliteFloyd HunterC. Wright MillsRobert A. DahlNelson W. PolsbySteven Lukes
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Political Science and the Problem of Social Order , pp. 127 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Questioning Consensus
  • Henrik Enroth
  • Book: Political Science and the Problem of Social Order
  • Online publication: 17 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009092227.008
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  • Questioning Consensus
  • Henrik Enroth
  • Book: Political Science and the Problem of Social Order
  • Online publication: 17 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009092227.008
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  • Questioning Consensus
  • Henrik Enroth
  • Book: Political Science and the Problem of Social Order
  • Online publication: 17 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009092227.008
Available formats
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