Part 1 Perspectives of power: conflictual power; consensual power; power and structure. Part 2 Giddens, structuration and power: Giddens and time-space: structures as rules; power, structures and resources; Giddens - a critique. Part 3 Restructuration and power: interaction and restructuration; paradigms and interaction; restructuration and consensual power; conflictual power and restructuration; destructuration, institutions and powerlessness; structural constraint and inequalities of power.