Power and Inequality in Interpersonal Relations

Buch | Hardcover

221 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-5566-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that people can gain power over each other and then abuse this power because of unequal resource conditions. The authors define resources as the means necessary for satisfaction or achievement of needs or goals, such as wealth, physical strength, intellectual capacity and information, sexual attractiveness, and status.

This volume is different from existing social science books on inequality and vulnerability, which address relations between people of different social positions, races, genders, ages, and places of residence confronting each other in political, economic, and cultural battles. This book focuses on people who become the victims of those whom they know personally—relatives, colleagues, neighbors.

The authors argue that unequal resource distribution among members of social units is the main cause of conflict and ultimately creates situations where members of a social unit can abuse other members of the same unit.

Vladimir Shlapentokh is professor of sociology at Michigan State University, USA. Previously he was senior fellow in the Sociological Institute in Moscow, Russia. His writings appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. His most recent book is Feudal America: Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society. Eric Beasley is assistant professor at the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education at Michigan State University, USA, and special lecturer at Oakland University, USA.

Preface

Acknowledgment

1 Weak People and Dependence on Others

2 The Distribution of Resources and Dependence on "Others"

I Resources

3 Physical Strength

4 Wealth

5 Social Status

II Help

6 General Help — Jeff Oliver

7 Government Help — Shikha Bista

8 Civil Society Help — Shelby Bierwagen

Conclusion

Index

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4128-5566-7 / 1412855667
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-5566-2 / 9781412855662
Zustand	Neuware