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- Title
MEASURING CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL POWER: FINDING COLEMAN'S LOST POWER.
- Authors
Hayduk, Leslie A.
- Abstract
The article presents the author's comment on the article "Loss of Power" by James S. Coleman. In his Loss of Power article, Coleman attacks the twin problems of social organization and social stratification. Social organization means some will be winners and others losers. In Coleman's conceptualization, the power winners are corporate actors or corporations that for various historical reasons have come to be "juristic persons before the law" and the power losers are "natural" persons. According to the author Coleman's theory involves a set of actors who have interests in the outcomes of a set of events and who exercise varying degrees of control over those events. By membership, they gain some constitutional power over the decision-making apparatus of the corporate actor, but they resign themselves to abiding by a collective decision which may or may not require them to act in ways contrary to their own private interests. Coleman proposed a measure of corporate power based on the extent to which constituent members of a corporate actor maintained control over events of interest to themselves. This measure erroneously omitted consideration of the control that members retained over events of interests to other members since it is precisely this control that constitutes the individuals' resources utilized in vote trades or exchanges.
- Subjects
SOCIAL structure; CORPORATE power; COLEMAN, James Samuel, 1926-1995; SOCIAL interaction; SOCIAL stratification; MEMBERSHIP
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1976, Vol 41, Issue 6, p1074
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2094807