Power, Social vs Personal Relations

catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Mon Dec 9 01:26:26 PST 2002


Carrol says:


>It is playing words, engaging in superstition, to regard "power"
>in "power in society" as being the same word as "power" in "power in
>personal relations." We _can_ talk of the way in whcih social relations
>influence personal relations (or vice versa), and we can note the
>operation of power in each -- but still we must not think that we are
>talking about the same thing with the word power in the two contexts.

Superstition? Carrol, I just don't think these "two contexts" are this separable (let alone this easily separable). Show me an operation of social power which is not instantiated in personal relations, or the other way around. I just don't buy it.

Catherine



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