Power in Societies

action activities actors Alexis de Tocqueville American analysis areas associations authority basic become bourgeoisie capital capitalist central concept conflict constitute countervailing power cultural decisions democracy democratic distribution economic effective ethnic exclusion exercise existence fact force freedom function functionaries given goals Herbert Blumer historical human important indigenous population individual industrial influence institutions interests Jim Crow Jim Crow laws Karl Marx labor large numbers leaders leadership legitimacy major Marx Marx's Marxist mass society Max Weber means migrants military Mills moral nature Negro oligarchy operation party persons pluralism pluralistic political political sociology position possible power elite prestige privileges problem production proletariat racial desegregation Ralf Dahrendorf relations relationships Riesman role ruling class segregation sense situation social classes social order social organization social power social structure sociological struggle subordinate superordinate Talcott Parsons theory totalitarian United values Wright Mills