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Exchange-based Power Relation and Its Regulation in Modern Society(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2014年01期
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5-14
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Title:
Exchange-based Power Relation and Its Regulation in Modern Society
Author(s):
ZHANG Kang-zhi
Keywords:
power relation exchange relation cooperative organization
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Abstract:
In an agricultural society, power relation was based on its caste-based social identity system. But in an industrial society, this social foundation for power relations disappeared due to various social enlightenments. In the organization of society, a new type of power relations has been established in and through social organizations. The power relation in a modern organization differs from those in an agricultural society in that it has acquired a property of exchange rather than complete dominance. Crozier and Friedberg are the first to have discovered this exchange element in power relation. Their discovery provides a new approach to the regulation of power relations. However, their scientific findings are significant only under the condition that the form and nature of the existing organizations are stable. As a matter of fact, when human society is beginning to enter the post-industrial era, a new type of organization, i.e. cooperative organization, is emerging. To a cooperative organization, the key issue is how to separate power from the will to power. If a path to the separation between power and the will to power is available, new dimensions of the function of power can be recognized and it will be easier to solve the problem of how to put power under effective control.

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