“Pluralists hold that power may be tied to issues, and
issues can be fleeting or persistent, provoking coalitions among interested
groups and citizens, ranging in their duration from momentary to
semi-permanent. . . . To presume that the set of coalitions which exists in the
community at any given time is a timelessly stable aspect of social structure
is to introduce systematic inaccuracies into one’s description of social
reality. “
I believe this quote from the Article “Two faces of
Power” written by Peter Bachrachand Morton S. Baratz is very important part of
the article, it actually frames what the entire article is about. In order to
understand this quote, we have to clarify who are the “Pluralists” and how
power is distributed in the community. Well Pluralists are citizens in a state
of society where members are diverse in ethnicity, racial, religious, or social
groups, who maintains and develop their own traditional culture or special
interest within the boundaries of a common civilization around them.
This quote especially demonstrates that there is
different levels of power within a society and that does determine which social
group, ethnic group, racial group, or even religious group has most power to
make changes. Usually people of the same group tends to support their own background ideas, the ideas
that would only be favorable to that specific social group, ethnic group,
racial group, or religious group. That is ethnocentrism, which causes groups to
not focus on common ideas that would be better for the society. It is very
important for groups to come together to share power among all.
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