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Lectures. The work of the main authors will be described several times under different perspectives according to the issue studied. Contemporary approaches will be illustrated and discussed through concrete questions (ex: Active Social State) and recent research (ex: work in network).
1. Introduction : difficulty in apprehending the notion of power, sociological theory production, notion of structure (generalities).
2. The social structure as emanating from considerations on society's survival or on the effective function-ing of society. Macro-sociological approaches (Spencer, Durkheim, Radcliffe-Brown, Marx, Parsons) and structuro-functionnal tradition. Principles of functional analysis (Merton, Fleck, Douglas).
3. The structure as generated by domination and coercion (Hobbes, Freud, Marx, Mills, Dahrendorf, We-ber, Gramsci, Marcuse, Habermas, Foucault).
4. The structure as generated by an integration process and by social exchange (Goffman, Becker, Blau, Gagnon et Simon)
5. From totality to differentiation: field and social system (Bourdieu, Luhmann).
6. From differentiation to de-differentiation, the social networks approach: structural approach (Bott, Granovetter, Freeman, Burt) ; "actantial" approach (McAdam, McCarthy et Zald).
7. Tensions within sociological theory: institutionalisation (formal) vs interdependency (informal), macro vs micro, structure and action, procedures and change, individual vs society (from authors below and a few others: Elias, Giddens, Thomson, Touraine
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8. Produce a theory of power in today's social context: determinant social transformations (" globalisa-tion", technological revolution, " expert systems", new systems and new paradigms of public action, " new risks "
), relevance and overtaking of classic theories, movements and today's theoretical de-bates.
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