Lukes suggests another, more radical, explanation for the essentially contested nature of the concept of power: our conceptions of power are, according to him, themselves shaped by power relations.
Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits".
(e) Change our conceptions of "childhood" as a protected early period in a person's life?
Perpetrators of mass murder are usually nothing like our conceptions of them.
And it is the rural, built with those determined hands, that could change our conceptions of what a city is.
"Step It Up" makes us realize how little other competitive reality shows challenge our conceptions of ambition.
There is also a question as to how this and similar technologies could alter our conceptions of parenting itself.
They suggest, too, how closely our conceptions of Lincoln's public greatness are connected with our conception of his inner life, his empathy, his personal suffering.
As you read accounts in coming days, weigh Mr. Cullen's words: "Perpetrators of mass murder are usually nothing like our conceptions of them.
Mr. Gopnik's new book is largely about that myth and how it has influenced our conceptions of fine dining for roughly two centuries.
The fragmentation of work, the spread of precarity and the stratification of workforces all point to one conclusion: the working class is fundamentally changing, and our conceptions of class have to catch up with that.
