Book chapter2019Dominik Tylka
CitationTylka, Dominik. “Wielowymiarowość źródeł panowania w świetle procesualnej teorii władzy.” In Poszerzamy Horyzonty. Tom XV, część I, edited by Małgorzata Bogusz, Monika Wojcieszak and Piotr Rachwał, 477–484. Słupsk: Mateusz Weiland Network Solutions, 2019.
Abstract
The paper analyses the sources of domination in Jadwiga Staniszkis’s processual theory of power. It treats processuality as the central organising principle of the theory and examines the ideal types of the dictate of power, idea and form. The analysis argues that the strategic nodes producing domination may be located in different dimensions of social reality rather than in a single, stable source.
Author's summary
This text is an important step in my reconstruction of Staniszkis’s theory because it shifts attention from the visible holder of power to the mechanisms that generate domination. The processual perspective suggests that effective control can arise from different layers of social reality and that its source cannot be reduced to formal institutions or material resources alone.
Keywords
Jadwiga Staniszkis, processual theory of power, domination, dictate, sources of power, political power
About the author
Dominik Tylka
Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Dominik Tylka is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. His research focuses on social and political power, individual agency, and the conditions under which asymmetries of resources become effective and relatively durable relations of compliance. He is particularly interested in the interaction between social structures and individual responses, including obedience, adaptation, circumvention and resistance.