Power

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Power

• Dialogic lectures on social and legal theory
• Sabine Frerichs Samuli Hurri
• Helsinki, December 2009

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Day-to-day Programme of the Lecture Series

• Tue 01.12. Concepts / Preconceptions of Power
• Thu 03.12. Social Action Microcosm of Power
• Fri 04.12. Social Order Macrocosm of Power
• Mon 07.12. Classical Sociology Culture and Power
• Tue 08.12. Critical Sociology Power and
  Conflicts
• Thu 10.12. Rational Discourse and Political Power
• Mon 14.12. Economy of Power and Symbolic Violence
• Tue 15.12. Truth Regimes and the Legal Subject
• Wed 16.12. Recapitulation and Summary
• Exam Fri 18.12.09, 12-14 h / Wed 13.01.10, 14-16
  h, PIV

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Lecture 1 (Tue 01.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 1, Part I (Samuli)Legal Theory Concepts
of Power

• Public law concept
• Private law concept
• Power Energy
• Law as a transformer of power
• Focus power over thought

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Lecture 1, Part II (Sabine)Sociological Notions
of Law and Power

• A sociological compass macro, micro, outside,
  inside
• Understanding society a two-dimensional map
• Notions of law and power four ideal-types
• Segmentary, functional and stratificatory
  differentiation
• Field of Power from social theory to social
  practice

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Lecture 2 (Thu 03.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 2, Part I (Samuli)Microcosm of Power

• Dialogue as power?
• The problem self-consciousness produced in the
  encounter of the other
• Transgredient, polyphony, exotopy
• Law? Communication, symbolic violence,
  empowerment , protection of integrity?
• Ideology of the positivist law exotopy

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Lecture 2, Part II (Sabine)Social Action The
Micro Level

• Theories of action
• Rational Choice Theory vs Symbolic Interactionism
• homo oeconomicus vs homo micro-sociologicus
• Linking micro and macro levels
• why macro contextualization?
• micro foundation vs micro translation
• Notions of law and power
• RC / strategic action from power to norms
• SI / communicative action from norms to power

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Lecture 3 (Fri 04.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 3, Part I (Samuli)Macrocosm of Power

• Law and political power, natural law influence
  of a system of thought on another social /
  physical
• The birth nomoi after Greek Dark Ages
  (c.1100-800 BC)
• The spiritual universe of the Greek polis and
  its order
• Law, a new concept
• Nomos and physis

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Lecture 3, Part II (Sabine)Social Order The
Macro Level

• Nomos in sociological perspective
• Durkheim
• Bourdieu
• Nomos between ratio and voluntas (Tuori)
• layers of the law
• traditions of (socio-)legal thinking
• Nomos, polis, oikos and physis
• from ancient Greece
• to the modern world society

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Lecture 4 (Mon 07.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 4, Part I (Samuli)Social Physics

• Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
• Positive laws of nature
• Theological, metaphysical, positive
• Mathematics, astronomy,, biology, sociology
• Pathological normal pathological
• Legal laws
• Will (Sovereings, peoples) ?haphazardness
• Too much order normality too much progress
• Legal law cannot but produce social pathologies

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Lecture 4, Part II (Sabine)Classical Sociology
Culture and Power

• Situating the sociology of law
• perspectives of law and society
• comparing law and sociology
• unity of legal and social theory?
• Classic perspectives Émile Durkheim
• Durkheims notion of the law
• Durkheims theory in a nutshell
• Classic perspectives Max Weber
• Webers notion of the law
• Webers position on values

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Lecture 5 (Tue 08.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 5, Part I (Samuli)Ideology

• Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
• Base/superstructure, reproduction of workforce
• Repressive and ideological state-apparatuses
• Ideology of ideology and the subject
• Law as an apparatus?

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Lecture 5, Part II (Sabine)Critical Sociology
Power and Conflicts

• Critical Perspectives Karl Marx (1818-1883)
• Marxs notion(s) of law
• Critical Perspectives Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)
• Polanyis theory in a nutshell
• liberal socialism vs econonomic liberalism
• Economic Sociology of Law
• classic views of market society
• levels of social embeddedness

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Lecture 6 (Thu 10.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 6, Part I (Samuli)Democratic Law

• Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
• (Re-)birth of the public sphere
• Presuppositions of communication
• Reconstructions democracy and basic rights

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Lecture 6, Part II (Sabine)Rational Discourse
and Political Power

• Habermas notions of social action and social
  order
• strategic vs communicative action
• economic/administrative systems vs life world
• Habermas notions of law and power
• law as institution vs law as medium
• illegitimate social power vs legitimate political
  power
• Between Facts and Norms
• What is philosophical, what is sociological about
  it?
• principle of critical reconstruction

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Lecture 7 (Mon 14.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 7, Part I (Samuli)

• Social theory of practice and habitus
• Legal theory of practice and freedom
• The gift as an example of social structure
• Misrepresentation in law?

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Lecture 7, Part II (Sabine)Economy of Power and
Symbolic Violence

• Conception of the social space
• field of (economic and political) power
• fields of economic vs cultural reproduction
• legal field as a cultural field?
• Jurisprudence and the state
• symbolic capital, symbolic violence
• juridical capital as symbolic capital
• legal field as (closely) state-related?
• Structural homologies between social fields
• patterns inside the legal field
• reflect patterns outside the legal field

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Lecture 8 (Tue 15.12.2009)

• Structure

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Lecture 8, Part I (Samuli)

• Genealogy of governmentality
• Pastoral power
• Raison dEtat
• Liberalism

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Lecture 8, Part II (Sabine)Truth Regimes and
the Legal Subject

• Understanding power as politics of truth
• histories of truth and sites of truth
• history of truth and history of law
• Genealogy of the state and the subject
• state
• government and political economy
• from justice to truth from truth to justice
• subject
• homo oeconomicus as eminently governable
• homo oeconomicus vs subject of rights