Community Power and Influence Studies: Two Positions.

Autor/in	Spiess, John A.
Institution	Toledo Univ., OH. Coll. of Education.
Titel	Community Power and Influence Studies: Two Positions.
Quelle	(1970), (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Boards of Education; Community Influence; Community Study; Decision Making; Educational Policy; Political Influences; Political Science; Power Structure; Pyramid Organization; Research Methodology; School District Autonomy; Social Structure; Sociology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausschuss; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Research method; Forschungsmethode; School district; School districts; Autonomy; School autonomy; Schulautonomie; Sozialstruktur; Soziologie
Abstract	Reputational and pluralistic methods of community analysis differ; their findings, conclusions, and philosophies are frequently at variance. Reputationalists find an economically dominated power elite. They picture a community's power and influence structure as pyramidal -- the power elite forming a monolithic power pyramid. Thus, according to reputationalists, only a select few run the affairs of the community. The pluralists, on the other hand, assume that influence is specialized and that people act primarily in areas of major interest. Consequently, for pluralists, no single group dominates the community, and those people who are influential in one sector of public activity tend to be noninfluential in another. However, both schools of thought agree on one fundamental point: very few citizens actually participate in the community's decisionmaking processes. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC