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the bias of the system is not sustained simply by a series of individually chosen acts, but also, most importantly, by the socially structured and culturally patterned behaviour of groups, and practices of institutions, which may indeed be manifested by individuals’ inaction.
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
The two sides of stakeholder theory, ethical recognition and strategic identification, join to form a double constraint that falls on the actors. If ‘stakeholders’ manage to build a relationship of force, then they will be recognized at the strategic level, but ethically delegitimized. The false alternative that this dilemma of recognition places before protesters is the following: either illegitimate power, or powerless legitimacy. This is the trap.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Herein lies the power work has over our lives. Work integrates us. It defines us as citizens and as breadwinners that have earned the right to belong. And yet, our union with work, a union that is encapsulated in our desire to succeed as individuals, is actually attached to paid work which is arguably less about individual or social wealth and more about the private appropriation of surplus value (Weeks, 2011).
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
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