Meaning of powerstructure | Babel Free

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An analog of a power set in the context of mathematical structuralism.

Examples

“The family then is still one important locus of patriarchal control of women although the change in the powerstructure has diminished the power of the family though not the importance of the family.”

“This new numerical input in the powerstructure changed the position of the bourgeoisie elite. Votes became a new resource which they could not control and by 1930 a totally new powerstructure emerged, whereby landowning agrarian elite, urban elite and proletariate were united in a single system.”

“In this situation, the majority must have access to the powerstructure in order to enforce its superiority and prejudicial beliefs on others.”

“In these organizations, official hierarchical structures are a bad instrument to detect the real powerstructure.”

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