Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 44-64.

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Logics of Power Operations at the Grassroots Level: A Case Study of a Community in Shanghai

Jin Qiao   

  1. Author: Jin Qiao,Chinese Social Transformation and Social Organization Research Centre of Shanghai University; Department of Sociology, Shanghai University
  • Online:2010-05-25 Published:2010-05-25
  • Contact: Author: Jin Qiao,Chinese Social Transformation and Social Organization Research Centre of Shanghai University; Department of Sociology, Shanghai University E-mail:E-mail: jinqiao@shu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Abstract: With the supposition that city communities had their own unique logics of power perations existing right in the interactor interactions, this study took a residential committee to examine the interactions among its Party Secretary, members and workers within the committee, members in other organizations, activists and ordinary residents in the community, and certain special groups, through which the power operations and interactive processes within city communities as well as their underlying logics were analyzed. It was found that, in the interactive processes with various groups, the residential committee workers demonstrated power in many forms, including the interpersonal humantouch power, semibureaucratic power, resourceexchanging power, organizational cooperating power, various strategic and tactic power, etc. Five logics of city community power operations were summarized: the attachment logic, the negotiated cooperation logic, the eliteleading logic, the humantouch logic, and the servicechange logic.

Key words: actor ,  interaction ,  power ,  power operations ,  residential committee