Political power and social change

Modern science and technology, the accelerated rate of social change, and the substantial progress of the social sciences have made the use of power for social ends an increasingly impor tant problem in today's world.

In this book a scholar with broad experience in public affairs considers the dynamics of change in the political social relationships of to-day. Dr. Odegard analyzes the problems of power exercise and power control in the framework of a wholly new era in human experience. His summary of the methodological and value problems that confront the political scientist is particularly directed to the socalled behaviorialist school because it repres ents the most promising method for the study of political power, offers hope for the controlled use of power beyond that of most other schools, and be cause too many practicing behavioriali sts have misconstrued a "value-free" posture to include a kind of militant indifference to values.

The book deals with the use and abuse of political power, mainly within the context of the traditional conflicts over its purpose and scope.

The material in the book was first presented at the University of Puget Sound in April, 1965, as the thirteenth annual Brown and Haley Lectures, a series devoted to original analyses of intellectual problems which have special.