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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Explain the concept of power. Distinguish between power and authority.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Politics and Society

Power is among the most contested concepts in sociology. Bertrand Russell (Power: A New Social Analysis, 1938) called it "the production of intended effects" and argued it is to social science what energy is to physics. Max Weber's definition is the standard: the probability that an actor in a social relationship can carry out his…

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