Beyond dependence: An identity approach to social power and domination
提出一种新的社会权力心理学模型,强调权力既是压制性也是生产性力量,区分了实现目标的权力和支配他人的权力,并探讨了权力与地位、抵抗与社会变革的关系。
This article outlines a new approach to the social psychology of power. Specifically, it challenges the currently influential conflictoriented dependence analysis, in which power operates as an almost exclusively repressive force. Drawing on relevant work from other social science disciplines, the article presents an identity model of power, in which both consensus and conflict play important roles. The model theorizes power as a productive as well as repressive force, and differentiates between social power toachieve desired outcomes and social power overothers (domination). The implications of the model for two classic issues in the power literature are considered: the relationship between power and status, and challenges to power (resistance and social change). The model's empirical potential is also discussed.