Power and language are not disembedding mechanisms like money

Evidence

I do not accept the main framework of their analyses. Neither power nor language is on a par with money or other disembedding mechanisms. Power and the use of language are intrinsic features of social action on a very general level, not specific social forms. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 66

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is Giddens’s direct disagreement with Parsons and Luhmann treating power/language as circulating media — worth contrasting with the reader’s use of Luhmann on trust.
• XREF: connects to: Money and dialectic are secondary codifications that double a medium’s options; Money and love codes neutralize direct power by separating sanctions; Informal human-relation influence cannot substitute for technicalized formal power. (+11 more)

Related

• Money and dialectic are secondary codifications that double a medium’s options (similarity 0.86)
• Money and love codes neutralize direct power by separating sanctions (similarity 0.85)
• Language’s defining power enforces social structures by silencing alternatives (similarity 0.82)
• Language enables conventions rather than being constituted by them. (similarity 0.80)
• Advanced societies need specialized symbolic media beyond language to secure acceptance of selections. (similarity 0.79)
• Power is code-guided communication, not a property possessed by anyone (similarity 0.78)
• Treating power as a communication medium enables comparing it with truth and money. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power operates through symbolic influence while coercion abandons symbolic generalization #corroborates (0.70)
• Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them #corroborates (0.60)
• Meaning arises from articulating linguistic systems rather than reflecting the world #corroborates (0.60)
• Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals #corroborates (0.60)
• Discoursing on power differs fundamentally from being silenced by it #expands (0.55)
• Power-laden words constrain how and whether people can think certain thoughts. #expands (0.55)
• Language can distort as well as transmit human culture #corroborates (0.50)