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Lec #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction, Opening Discussion - How is power defined? Is it possible to use a single definition of power to describe a variety of social situations? - How do people get and use power? - How much power is lodged within personality and how much is part of the structure of the situation? - How does the use of power sometimes mystify the targets so that they do not recognize that power is being exerted? - Can power be equalized, or must some people always have more? - What is resistance? How might we identify resistance in situations of institutionalized power?
I. Defining the Concept of Power: A Preliminary Analysis
2-3	What is Power? Action and Intention
4-6	What Power is Not: Influence and Conformity
7-10	Force: The Limiting Case
11-12	Leadership and Charisma: Personal and Inspirational Power	First paper due on Lec #11
13-14	Authority (1): The Ability to Command
II. The Sources, Structure and Institutionalization of Power
15-16	Some Classical Views
17-18	Modern Debates	Midterm exam
19-20	Authority (2): Power Redefined, Institutionalized, and Disciplined
III. Institutionalized Power: Examples and Transformations
21-22	Bureaucratic Organizations and Entrepreneurial Corporations
23-24	Modernity, Post-modern Colonialism, and The Global Community
25-26	The Possibilities of Resistance
27	Powersharing Can Power be Distributed Equally?	Final paper due

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