Download or read book Property and Power in Social Theory written by Dick Pels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-08-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property and power perform a key role in social and political theories of class inequality and social stratification, however, theorists have yet clearly to define these concepts, their mutual boundaries and scopes of application. This book answers the property/power puzzle by undertaking a broad historical inquiry into its intellectual origins and present-day effects through a series of case studies, including: Marxism vs. anarchism * the fascist assertion of the primacy of the political * social science as power theory * the managerial revolution * the knowledge society and the new intellectual classes