of these two theoretical camps lies in their misunderstanding of the way in which power evolves in capitalist society … power. The central assumption of this dissertation is that it is necessary to understand the mutual transformation of … restructuring. For this purpose, it adopts Nitzan and Bichler’s perspective of capital as power. From this perspective, situating …

within a ‘capital as power’ theoretical framework, my purpose in this is to shed some much-needed light on the dynamics of … come to reinforce and augment the power of those at the very top of the hierarchy of social power. [This thesis was …

watch films, the thesis argues, is an institutional facet of capitalist power. Capitalist power—the ability to control … the Hollywood film business, capitalist power is about the ability of business concerns to set the terms that mould the … the capital-as-power approach and uses it as a foundation to an alternative political economic theory of capitalism. The …

itself are considered) different levels of analysis interrelated among themselves. The Sociology of Power emerged from the … proposal. Based upon this work, we were able to clarify and better define concepts such as actor, agent, resources of power and …'s work, such as symbolic power resources or the field of power, adapting them to our proposal. In addition, a specific …

of concentrated power. The focus on hierarchy leads to some surprising discoveries. First, I find evidence that … strongly with hierarchical power (defined as the number of subordinates under one's control), and that hierarchical power …. I conclude by making the first prediction of how the concentration of hierarchical power should relate to the growth of …

transformations and capital accumulation, understood as an all-encompassing power process. *** I start by critically exploring the … of “Capital as Power” (CasP), which dissolves the boundaries between economics and politics in the study of capital. Key … transformations and the power processes of capital accumulation. Using insights from Social Practice Theory (SPT), I further …