We analyze the structure of a society driven by power relations. Our model has an exogenous power relation over the set of coalitions of agents. Agents determine the social order by forming coalitions. The power relations determine the ranking of agents in society for any social order. We study a cooperative game in partition function form and introduce a solution concept, the stable social ord...

This article focuses on the tensions between the commitment to power redistribution of the qualitative paradigm and the ethical and methodological complexity inherent in clinical research. Qualitative inquiry, in general, though there are significant variations between its different paradigms and traditions, proposes to reduce power differences and encourages disclosure and authenticity between...

Peoples’ need to socialise with others and greed for power can be best captured with Aristotle's famous description of human beings as “political animals”/”social animals”. It is interesting to watch how cyber communities, such as Web-based forums and mailing lists, manifest themselves through social interactions and shared values, membership and friendship, and commitments and loyalty. It is i...

Every operation or relation on a base set A can be "lifted" to the power set P ( A ) . In this paper clones of operations and corresponding invariant relations are studied under this process of lifting (e.g. the clone generated by all lifted operations of a clone is characterized internally by 6-closure (Thm. 2.2) and externally by special invariant relations (Thm. 2.4, 3.3)). Generalizations t...