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 ===== We’re here to help: Expertise as power =====
-Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/6916//8
+Ryan Schram\\
+ANTH 6916: The social in justice\\
+Wednesday, September 18, 2024
+Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/6916/2024/8
 **Main reading:** Weber (1991); Foucault (1991); Foucault (1982)
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 ===== Max Weber, rationality, the state, and modernity =====
-While Durkheim and Marx also have their own theories of states, they aren’t that original. The most influential theorist of the contemporary state as a type is [[:Max Weber]], for whom it is crucially linked to his idea of [[:modernity]].
+While Durkheim and Marx also have their own theories of states, they aren’t that original. The most influential theorist of the contemporary state as a type is [[:Max Weber]], for whom it is crucially linked to his idea of [[:modernity|modernity]].
 Weber looks at society from the ground up, in terms of patterns of social action.
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   * Power does not stop you, deny you, force you, or make you do anything. It is you. Without your agency as an individual, there is no fuel to maintain social order. Power is the mechanisms by which your own agency is co-opted.
+===== Small group discussions =====
+  - Break up into small groups by number
+  - Check-in
+  - Share personal experiences and perspective on bureaucratic organizations and systems. What is your definition of bureaucracy?
+  - Read about Foucault's idea of "pastoral power" (Foucault 1982, 783–784). Foucault argues that there has been a shift in the politics of social change away from challenges to who exercises power and toward challenges to how power is exercised, or the effects of power as such. This involves a focus on people and things that would not normally be considered powerful.
+    * What are some examples of pastoral power?
+    * How do you know that something is an expression of pastoral power?
+    * Does this matter for the practice of development? How?
 ===== References and further reading =====