Zuev, P.V. Power as a political category

Abstract: In this article the author reviews power as a political category. At all stages of development of human thought various methodological schools tried to explain the phenomenon of power. The author reviews various directions of it interpretation, behaviourism, theologism, structuralism, etc. The author analyzes social nature of power, its relationship with politics, as well as the historical process of formation of the term “power”. Keywords: political science, politics, power, behaviorism, structuralism, legitimacy, society, ideology, state