Three concepts of power: Foucault, Bourdieu, and Habermas
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Three concepts of power : Foucault, Bourdieu, and Habermas. / Christensen, Gerd.
I: Power and Education, 2023, s. 1-14.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Three concepts of power
T2 - Foucault, Bourdieu, and Habermas
AU - Christensen, Gerd
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The article is a discussion of the concept of power in three different social theories that are often applied to educational research: the theories of Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault. In everyday life, the concept of power is used as if it only had a single connotation: power as possessed by someone (“the powerful”) while exercised over someone else (“the powerless”). Inthis case, power is considered as a (potentially) repressive force and ascribed to a person, a culture, a state, or a society. Though, power can be comprehended otherwise: as non-possessed and productive. In the paper, the three conceptions of power are presented and discussed in relation to each other and to specific philosophical themes like dualism, reductionism, determinism and autonomy, truth, normativity, and relativism. Finally, the paper shows that the applied powerconcept has significant consequences for the way the educational researcher analyzes conflicts, and therefore also for our understanding of the world in which we live.
AB - The article is a discussion of the concept of power in three different social theories that are often applied to educational research: the theories of Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault. In everyday life, the concept of power is used as if it only had a single connotation: power as possessed by someone (“the powerful”) while exercised over someone else (“the powerless”). Inthis case, power is considered as a (potentially) repressive force and ascribed to a person, a culture, a state, or a society. Though, power can be comprehended otherwise: as non-possessed and productive. In the paper, the three conceptions of power are presented and discussed in relation to each other and to specific philosophical themes like dualism, reductionism, determinism and autonomy, truth, normativity, and relativism. Finally, the paper shows that the applied powerconcept has significant consequences for the way the educational researcher analyzes conflicts, and therefore also for our understanding of the world in which we live.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Determinism, dualism, normativity, power relations, relativism, truth
KW - Determinism
KW - dualism
KW - Normativity
KW - Power relations
KW - relativism
KW - Truth
U2 - 10.1177/17577438231187129
DO - 10.1177/17577438231187129
M3 - Journal article
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Power and Education
JF - Power and Education
SN - 1757-7438
ER -
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