Books On Social Power

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2009

The Sources of Social Power (History of Social Power from the beginning to AD 1760)
Book by Michael Mann

Nuclear Power and Social Power Book by Rick Eckstein

Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power Book by Ron Eglash (Editor), Jennifer L. Croissant (Editor), Giovanna Di Chiro (Editor), Rayvon Fouché (Editor)

Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica Book by Obika Gray

Bullying and Teasing : Social Power in Children's Groups Book by Gayle L. Macklem

Social Power and the CEO: Leadership and Trust in a Sustainable Free Enterprise System Book by Elliott Jaques

Dangerous Diagnostics : The Social Power of Biological Information Book by Dorothy Nelkin, Laurence Tancredi

Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China (Law, Society, and Culture in China) Book by Melissa MacAuley

The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics Book by Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Ken Conca

The Dark Zone: Groundwater, Irrigation, Politics and Social Power in North Gujarat
Book by Anjal Prakash

Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power
Book by James Melvin Washington

Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power Book by Kenneth Bancroft Clark

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power Book by David Harrington Watt

Mrs. Astor's New York : Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age Book by Eric Homberger

Politics in Place : Social Power Relations in an Australian Country Town  Book by Ian Gray

Social Power and Everyday Class Relations: Agrarian Transformation in North Bihar Book by Anand Chakravarti

Social Power and the Turkish State Book by Michael Mann (Foreword), Tim Jacoby

Reviews:

Nuclear Power and Social Power Book by Rick Eckstein
We often think of "progress" and "economic growth" as natural developments that benefit all members of society. Nuclear Power and Social Power challenges this view and instead suggests that specific definitions of progress and economic growth can be molded by powerful individuals, organizations, and classes. These definitions, and their manifestation in social policy, often serve narrow parochial interests rather than the common good. Such inequities of social power, hiding behind the semantic facade of "progress" and "economic growth," threaten the existence of democratic communities and societies.
In Nuclear Power and Social Power, Rick Eckstein helps us understand this perspective of social power by examining the civilian nuclear power industry in the United States. More specifically, he compares the Shoreham reactor in New York and the Seabrook reactor in New Hampshire, which faced similar financial and public oppositions yet met very different fates.

Social Power and the Turkish State Book by Michael Mann (Foreword), Tim Jacoby
This book looks at how the method of governance apparent in Turkey came into being by applying, and expanding upon, the historical and comparative sociological theory of Michael Mann. Nature and distribution of social power.

Bullying and Teasing : Social Power in Children's Groups Book by Gayle L. Macklem
Social Power in Children's Groups frames bullying and teasing as part of the critical foundations of elementary and middle school planning that will allow children to experience the sense of personal safety needed to learn and grow.

Social Power and the CEO: Leadership and Trust in a Sustainable Free Enterprise System Book by Elliott Jaques
The power of top management is pervasive and profound. It affects the quality of economic life, but also our personal and social lives. Equally strong is its impact on the sustainability of a free enterprise system. Psychoanalyst, teacher, and management consultant, Elliott Jaques argues that great as this power is, it is being squandered, not because of what managers do but because of what they don't know.

Dangerous Diagnostics : The Social Power of Biological Information Book by Dorothy Nelkin, Laurence Tancredi
Sociologist Nelkin and law professor Tancredi ask the old question, "What are they keeping in our files?" about a panoply of new information that falls under the rubric of personal biochemistry, including genetic testing, brain chemistry studies, and hereditary predisposition to conditions such as heart disease. The authors say that medical test results are finding their way into personnel files, school records, insurance company data banks, and courtrooms and are too incompletely understood, wrongly applied, or used for the wrong reasons.

Mrs. Astor's New York : Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age Book by Eric Homberger
New York scholar Homberger (Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscience in Old New York) gathers a dog's breakfast of research into his latest exploration of the Big Apple.

Social Power and Everyday Class Relations: Agrarian Transformation in North Bihar Book by Anand Chakravarti
`Anand Chakravarti has movingly and convincingly shown us that the Kosi River remains a "River of Sorrow" for the downtrodden in Aghanbigha' - Christopher V Hill, Contemporary South Asia
This book, based on intensive fieldwork, examines the inter-connection between the social power wielded by members of the dominant landowning caste and their practice of agrarian capitalism.

The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics Book by Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Ken Conca
Peter Haas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Contains some of the most creative and exciting essays on environmental topics that I have seen in a long time.
"Probably the best book yet written on global environmental politics." -- Environmental Politics

Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power Book by Kenneth Bancroft Clark
KENNETH B. CLARK began his education in the Harlem public schools and was later graduated from Howard University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1962 he returned to Harlem as an "involved observer," serving as the chief consultant and chairman of the board of directors of the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited project (Haryou), from which Dark Ghetto arose. But, according to Clark, "Dark Ghetto is a summation of my personal and lifelong experiences and observations as a prisoner within the ghetto long before I was aware that I was really a prisoner."

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power Book by David Harrington Watt
In the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of Protestant churches whose members habitually carry their Bibles with them. These churches--often referred to as "evangelical" or "fundamentalist"--play a crucial role in shaping American society. In this book, David Watt draws on years of fieldwork to present an elegant reinterpretation of the way that conservative Protestants influence American politics and culture. At the heart of the book is a sympathetic, but far from uncritical, analysis of those forms of social power that are assumed to be natural among Bible-carrying Christians. While outsiders often presuppose that evangelical Christians take for granted the authority of certain institutions (among them the American state, corporations, ministers, men, and heterosexuals), Watt argues that the reality is far more complex. This is a concise and lively book that sheds new light on the way that Bible-carrying Christians influence the way that people in America think, and avoid thinking, about social power.