Energy and Structure: A Theory of Social Power.

Abstract

* Preface * Acknowledgments * Part One. The Nature of Power * 1. Introduction * 2. Basic Elements * 3. Additional Considerations * A. Power and Control * B. Reciprocity and Omnipresence * C. Authority and Legitimacy * D. Types of Power Exercise * 4. The Variety of Operating Units * A. Fragmented Units * B. Informal Units * C. Formal Units * 5. Power Domains and Levels * A. Power Domains * B. Levels and Confrontations * C. The Expansion of Domains and Levels * Part Two. Energetic and Mentalistic Structures * 6. A Note on Structure, Mind and Matter, and Culture * 7. The Energetic * A. Energy and Flow * B. The Second Law-and Order * C. Man in the Ecosystem * D. Human Society: An Expanding System * 8. The Mentalistic * A. Binary Distinctions and Levels * B. The Nature of Ranking * C. Value Classes * D. Some Mentalistic-Energetic Regularities * Part Three. A Model of the Evolution of Power * 9. The Framework * A. Evolution: General and Specific * B. The Growth Sequence * 10. Levels of Integration * A. Protolevels * B. The Local Level: Band and Tribe * C. The Regional Level and the Centralizing Role of Dogma * D. The State Level and Social Stratification * E. The National Level and the Recent Historic Era * 11. Replicative Processes * A. Energetic Expansion and Mentalistic Reduction * B. The Phases of Expansion * C. Vertical and Horizontal Oscillations * D. Power to the Top: The General Theory * 12. Social Power and the Future * A. Some Things That Cannot Happen * B. What Level of Life? * Works Cited * Index * Tables * 1. Levels of Operating Units in Kapauku Papuan Society * 2. Political and Kinship Levels in Konku * 3. Political and Kinship Levels in the United States * Figures * 1. Basic Components of Power Relations * 2. Types of Operating Units * 3. Unitary and Multiple Domains * 4. Change in Domain by Confrontation and Delegation * 5. Determining Levels of Articulation * 6. Ideal Types of Domain Expansion * 7. A Minimal Model of Culture * 8. Some Schematically Portrayed Dissipative Systems * 9. Mass-Energy-Information Flow Relations * 10. Energy Flow and Value Ranking * 11. Hindu Caste Ranking and the Energetic Process * 12. Power and Symbol Change * 13. Types of Evolution in Expanding Systems * 14. Operating Unit Types in the Fundamental Growth Sequence * 15. The Growth Sequence * 16. Schematic Model of Evolution of Power * 17. Growth Sequence of the Domestic Units * 18. Power Structure Expansion, Culture Trait Accumulation, and Ecosystem Succession * 19. Emergence of Levels of Integration