Parsons distinguished power and influence as separate media of exchange.

Evidence

Parsons, T. (1963a) On the concept of political power. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107, 232–62, reprinted in Parsons (1967), 297–354. … Parsons, T. (1963b) On the concept of influence. Public Opinion Quarterly 21, 37–62. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 1012

Categorization

• XREF: Parsons’s medium theory of power/influence is the explicit foil for Luhmann’s systems-theoretical reworking of trust and power.