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" I shall be concerned to prove ^ that the fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. "
Politics and Science - Page 22
by William Esslinger - 1955 - 167 pages
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The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America

G. William Domhoff - Political Science - 342 pages
...arrangements, as in Marxian theory, or to organized violence, as in Weberian theory. As Russell emphasizes: The fundamental concept in social science is Power,...which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Like energy, power has many forms, such as wealth, armaments, civil authority, influence on opinion....
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...of Symbolic Logic itself. Principle* of Mathematics 1903 (New York: Cambridge University Pres*) 60 The fundamental concept in social science is Power,...which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Power: A New Social Analyiu 1938 (New York: Norton) 61 With equal passion I have sought knowledge....
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Transforming Power: Domination, Empowerment, and Education

Seth Kreisberg - Education - 1992 - 290 pages
...concerning power. 1 Bertrand Russell (1938) asserts that "the fundamental concept in social sciences is Power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics" (p. 12). While Russell's argument for the primacy of power in explaining and understanding human interaction...
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On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity

Martin Buber - Social Science - 1992 - 273 pages
...calls it a "new social analysis" — power is defined as "the fundamental concept in social science, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics. " This bold concept on the part of a distinguished logician, which reminds us of Nietzsche's doctrine that...
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Gay and Lesbian Politics: Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic

Mark Blasius - History - 1994 - 264 pages
...follow that of Bertrand Russell, claiming that power is "the fundamental concept in social science ... in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."2 Here, the study of power is the master science in examining human reality. No matter whether...
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Popular Culture, Educational Discourse, and Mathematics

Peter Michael Appelbaum - Mathematics - 1995 - 328 pages
...much earlier by Bertrand Russell, who claimed power as "the fundamental concept in social science ... in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics." See Russell's Power: A New Social Analysis (New York: Norton, 1938). 54. This paragraph is taken from...
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Lethal Aid: The Illusion of Socialism and Self-reliance in Tanzania, Volume 3

Severine Mushambampale Rugumamu - Business & Economics - 1997 - 336 pages
...Russell (1938: 12) had the courage to forcefully claim that the "fundamental concept in social sciences is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics." In fact, power is not only one of the major explanatory concepts in the social sciences but it is also...
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Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today

Scott GORDON, Scott Gordon - Political Science - 2009 - 408 pages
...introducing his Power: A New Social Analysis: "In the course of this book I shall be concerned to prove that the fundamental concept in social science is...same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept of physics . . . Power, like energy, must be regarded as continually passing from any one of its forms...
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Mikropolitik und Moral: die Bedeutung persönlicher Macht für eine Ethik in ...

Marcus O. Mohr - Business ethics - 1999 - 216 pages
...(1995), 9, der Auffassung, daß Macht das fundamentale Konzept in den Sozialwissenschaften sei, und zwar «in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics». cen in einer Beziehung dar. Zum anderen erklären sie mit dem Konstrukt >Tausch<, wie Ressourcen von...
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Transforming Psychology : Gender in Theory and Practice: Gender in Theory ...

Chicago Stephanie Riger Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Program University of Illinois - Psychology - 2000 - 230 pages
...with dominance and power relationships have not received equal consideration. Bertrand Russell claimed that "the fundamental concept in social science is...which Energy is the fundamental concept in Physics. Like Energy, Power has many forms." 86 To understand women's lives, it is critical to consider factors,...
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