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Sarah chowdhry 17/01/06 How Useful Are The Concepts Of Pluralism, Elitism And Marxism In Enabling Us To Understand The Distribution Of Power In Society Power is an important dimension of social stratification. Power is everywhere in our society. We daily see power in different shapes. When young people accept or reject the authority of parents and teachers or a man puts a woman down for suggesting that he is better informed than she is and when a black person is refused a job because the employer is looking for a white person, these are all political acts. They all involve the exercise of power. Power is a contested concept, in other words there is no agreed definition of power. Max Weber's work is often taken as a starting point in the study of power. Weber defined power as the chance of a man or woman, number of men to realize their own...

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