INTERDISCIPLINARY VARIATIONS IN THE PERCEPTION OF POWER: A STUDY IN IDEOLOGY | Zendy

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INTERDISCIPLINARY VARIATIONS IN THE PERCEPTION OF POWER: A STUDY IN IDEOLOGY

Author(s) -

David R. Dickens,

Michael G. Lacy,

Don Landon,

Bob Rucker

Publication year - 1976

Publication title -

social thought and research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2469-8466

pISSN - 1094-5830

DOI - 10.17161/str.1808.4788

Subject(s) - elitism , ideology , pluralism (philosophy) , politics , perception , epistemology , power (physics) , positive economics , sociology , artifact (error) , social science , social psychology , political science , psychology , law , philosophy , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience

There have been marked disagreements in the literature on the structure of power in American society. The authors suggest that this controversy is an artifact of ideological differences between sociologists and political scientists. This hypothesis is tested through the use of a pluralism-elitism scale. Political scientists are found to score toward the pluralistic end of the spectrum, while sociologists are concentrated toward the elitist end, thus providing preliminary support for the hypothesis.

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