Power, theorizing, and nihilism

Power in industrial relations research

“…In contradistinction, it may be suggested that power researchers should try to break their fixation with operationalisation and measurement and turn their attention to the theoretical development of concept and the utilisation of alternative qualitative methodologies. The result of such a change as Clegg [77] has eloquently argued, would be an increased focus upon epistemology. Thus there may be said to be a 'lack of agreement among power study practitioners of what power is, and how it ought to be studied, a n d how such studies ought to be interpreted"781.…”

Maintenance of pre-mRNA secondary structure by epistatic selection.

“…Most notably, extensive studies of linkage disequilibrium based on allozyme variation at many loci in natural populations of Drosophila have failed to lend support to Wright's ideas (3,4). The prevailing view is that the lack of significant associations could be the result of the large map distances between most of the loci surveyed and/or the low density of selection per map unit (4)(5)(6). An alternative view is that the power of the statistical tests used to detect linkage disequilibrium between allozyme loci was too low and that moderate levels of disequilibrium between rather loosely linked allozyme loci can be detected by using a more powerful statistical approach (7).…”

Platypus at Play

“…The tracks were set early: After Power, Rule and Domination (1975), I never really moved too far away from power as a central life interest, as sociologists used to say, but merely extended it to new and interesting areas: organizations as structures of control (Clegg, 1977(Clegg, , 1981Clegg & Dunkerley, 1980); the relation be-tween classes and political economy (Clegg, Boreham, & Dow, 1986); the relation between modes of rationality and their forms of power in different cultures (Clegg & Redding, 1990;Clegg, Dunphy, & Redding, 1986); organization structures and class structures (Clegg, 1989a); and always, there was an abiding analytical concern with power pure and complex (Clegg, 1976(Clegg, , 1987(Clegg, , 1989a(Clegg, , 1989b(Clegg, , 1989c(Clegg, , 2001(Clegg, , 2002b.…”