Power is constitutive of social relations, not separable from them.

Evidence

Besides puuing the emphasis on practices and language-games, an alternative to the rationalist framework also requires coming to terms with the fact that power is constitutive of social relations. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 446

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social power is a political relation shaping people’s status, not mere capacity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1734; Power constitutes identities rather than acting between pre-formed ones. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 97; Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Power constitutes identities rather than acting between pre-formed ones. #exemplifies (0.88) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 97
• Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264
• Power produces subjects and desires rather than merely repressing them #corroborates (0.85) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 131
• The individual is an effect of power, not its presupposed target #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 48
• Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301
• Race itself is not a rationalization but the embodiment of power relations. #exemplifies (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1738
• Power relations interlock with economics without being subordinate to it. #exemplifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 33
• The people is constituted politically, not given sociologically. #exemplifies (0.80) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 443
• Social power is a political relation shaping people’s status, not mere capacity #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1734
• Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. #corroborates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617
• Intergroup relations are defined by power asymmetries, not just difference. #exemplifies (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4407
• The self is not a real self sealed off from social influence. #exemplifies (0.76) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 293
• Political power arises between citizens acting together, not individually #corroborates (0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 135
• The Leader’s power becomes structural necessity rather than personal superiority #exemplifies (0.74)