Social and Philosophical Analysis of Power as a Social Phenomenon

Abstract

The article discusses power as a social phenomenon in the social and philosophical context. The interpretations of the concept of "power" in different historical periods are studied, the specificity of interpretations of power within the social and philosophical concepts is revealed. Power as a social phenomenon has such characteristic features as relationship "domination-obedience", which acting as one of the mechanisms regulating the behavior, acquired during the sociogenesis, operationalizes the positive and negative sanctions of power. Study of power as a social phenomenon in the submitted article includes two main aspects: an analysis of approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "power" and an analysis of the paradigms, within which the study of power was performed actually.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s4p82