Michael Mann is a British-American historical sociologist best known for The Sources of Social Power, a multi-volume history of societies from prehistory to the present built around what he calls the IEMP model, the claim that ideological, economic, military, and political power are four distinct, overlapping sources of social power whose shifting combinations, rather than any single underlying logic, drive historical change. Mann argued against theories that treat society as a single bounded system, proposing instead that societies are constituted by overlapping and often contradictory networks of these four power sources operating at different scales. His work combined vast historical and comparative scope with close attention to specific cases, including an extended analysis of the origins of fascism, and established him as one of the most ambitious macro-historical sociologists of the late twentieth century.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped the IEMP model, naming distinct ideological, economic, military, and political sources of social power. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Sources of Social Power 1 Sources
1. Michael Mann (Wikipedia)
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Michael Mann FBA (born 1942) is a British-American emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and past honorary professor at the University of Cambridge.
Life and career section, birthplace sentence
Mann was born in Manchester, UK.
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Michael Mann FBA (born 1942) is a British-American emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and past honorary professor at the University of Cambridge.
Academic research section, main work sentence
Mann's main work is The Sources of Social Power (four volumes).
Social theory section, IEMP model sentence
One of Mann's main ideas is his IEMP model, where IEMP stands for distinct ideological, economic, military, and political sources of power.
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