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All communities are arranged in a manner that goods, tangible and intangible, symbolic and material are distributed.
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All communities are arranged in a manner that goods, tangible and intangible, symbolic and material are distributed. Such a distribution is always unequal and necessarily involves power. ''Classes, status groups and parties are phenomena of the distribution of power within a community''. Status groups makes up the social order, classes the economic order, and parties the legal/political order. Each order affects and is affected by the other. Power is the ''chance of a man or a number of men to realize their own will in a social action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action''. Power may rest of a variety of bases, and can be of differing types. ''Economically conditioned power is not identical with power... The emergence of economic power may be the consequence of power existing on other grounds. Man does not strive for power only to enrich him economically. Power,...
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