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The article examines Max Weber's definition of power, which is presented by several prominent theorists and commentators. It is examined in the light of the German original. The definition of power offered by Max Weber in his "Wirtschaf und Gesellschaft" has become of central importance to a number of considerations in political science, sociology and public administration. Weber distinguishes between power and leadership or rule. Setting aside, for the moment, the problems of "Herrschaft," it is interesting to note some of the many variations in meaning among the more prominent commentators on Weber's definition of power. Within a social relationship, power means every chance no matter whereon this chance is based to carry through the own will even against resistance. Returning to the original German, the author note that Weber has employed the word Chance, which has the same meaning as in English, that signified not only by luck, opportunity, or fortune, but additionally, that quality associated with the given-ness of the social environment. |
