A description of this abstruse subject on the Academy of Management website announces that "Our premise is that structural features of contemporary society, such as the profit imperative, patriarchy, racial inequality and ecological irresponsibility often turn organisations into instruments of domination and exploitation".
Morgan portrays organizations through the metaphors: (1) the organization as a machine; (2) the organization as an organism; (3) as brains; (4) as cultures; (5) as political systems; (6) as psychic prisons; (7) as flux and transformation, and; (8) as instruments of domination.
"The O.A.S. continues to be an instrument of domination of the United States," he said.
In Elle, the historian Marie-Josèphe Bonnet called marriage an "instrument of domination" and same-sex marriage a project of gay men, not lesbians.
Tocqueville's emphasis on cultural values contrasted sharply with the views of the German socialist theorists Karl Marx (1818 83) and Friedrich Engels (1820 95), who advanced a materialistic and economic theory of the state as an instrument of domination by the classes that own the means of production.
The metaphors we use are machine, organism, brain, flux and transformation, culture, political system, psychic prison, instrument of domination and carnival.
The former coca farmer called the Catholic Church "an instrument of domination which brings injustice and inequality" in 2008.
After registering at their hotel (waiting in line for a interminable amount of time, at least as I experienced this "welcome" at a four-star hotel), we LV visitors can, liberated from being transported at outrageous prices by the gas-guzzling, environment-destroying instruments of physical domination (car, airplanes, God bless 'em) yes we can -- yes, we freedom-loving Americans can walk!
In his 1997 book, "Epidemics and History Disease, Power, and Imperialism," historian Sheldon Watts even asserts that plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and the dual mosquito-borne menaces (malaria and yellow fever) imported to the New World by African slaves were serendipitous if not purposeful instruments of European domination until the early 20th century.
"The dissolution of his chosen instrument of political domination, the Baath Party, has been very well received".
"But Mass Culture breaks down the wall, integrating the masses into a debased form of High Culture and thus becoming an instrument of political domination".
