Hans Beck, Structures (Politics and Power) (2009)

2006

Social Structure Power and the Individual

Dialectical theoretical analysis of sociaty

EconStor Open Access Articles, 1987

Our Project work is based on the power and politics in organization in which we focus on organizational politics. The purpose of our research work is to identify the sources of power and how power is required for leadership. This study also tries to explain types of political organizations, factors those influence power and politics and factors contributing to political behavior in organizations. The report further elicits how organizations use strategies and tactics against power and politics. In a nutshell we identify the effects of power and politics on organizations as well as on the society as a whole.

2020

Political parties are ideal subjects for the study of power because they are specific sites in which it is produced and organised, fought over, captured and lost. However

Social Epistemology, 2019

Hierarchy has been a central concern of work on the modern political imaginary. The need to elucidate hierarchy's deeper sources and its legitimations were some of the motivations behind Cornelius Castoriadis' development of the notion of the imaginary. The work of Claude Lefort on the political imaginary similarly commences from a critical analysis of the hierarchical form of bureaucracy and its place in the constitution of totalitarian political regimes. In a different vein, Charles Taylor's conception of the imaginary details a long-term process of the erosion of preceding forms of hierarchy and their justifications. In the contemporary period, the opposition to hierarchy has penetrated organisations and institutions that had previously been shaped by it, like the family, the capitalist firm, the school, and the political movement. Despite the potentials that these initiatives suggest of a change in the political imaginary, it will be argued that forms of hierarchy have, to varying degrees, been reconstituted and that the problem of hierarchy appears in new ideological forms, both with respect to institutionalised power and the legitimating justifications for how things are organised. The critique of hierarchy was once associated with the radical democratic imaginary, however, there have recently been perverse mobilisations.

The term organizational structure denotes the social relations that have consolidated themselves in organizational settings. There are two principal definitions of organizational structure. The more common one has its theoretical origins in the positivism of functionalist and structuralist sociology: Organization is an objective, measurable, and comparable social fact. This definition concerns long-lasting social relations, which once they have become consolidated, are autonomous with respect to the people who have created them and act as if they have an existence of their own. The second definition originates in the constructionism of interpretative sociology and symbolic interactionism and views organization as a constant process. It refers to the temporary and ephemeral occurrence of social interactions in organizational settings, which are closely connected to interrelations among organizational actors without ever becoming autonomous and capable of their own action.

A review of Organizations and Archetypes by Monika Kostera. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.