powerstructure

plural powerstructures

1. alternativeuncommonAlternative form of power structure.

   In these organizations, official hierarchical structures are a bad instrument to detect the real powerstructure.

   1995, P. Tordoir, The Professional Knowledge Base of Science Teaching, page 47

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   The family then is still one important locus of patriarchal control of women although the change in the powerstructure has diminished the power of the family though not the importance of the family.

   1982, Anna-Birte Ravn, Bente Rosenbeck, Birte Siim, Capitalism and Patriarchy: Report from a Seminar at Aalborg University Centre, page 93

   This new numerical input in the powerstructure changed the position of the bourgeoisie elite. Votes became a new resource which they could not control and by 1930 a totally new powerstructure emerged, whereby landowning agrarian elite, urban elite and proletariate were united in a single system.

   1986, M. van Bakel, Renée R. Hagesteijn, Pieter Van De Velde, Private Politics: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to 'Big-Man' Systems, page 146

   In this situation, the majority must have access to the powerstructure in order to enforce its superiority and prejudicial beliefs on others.

   1988, Inn Sook Lee, Korean American Women's Experience: A Study in the Cultural and Feminist Identity Formation Process, page 73

2. mathematicsAn analog of a power set in the context of mathematical structuralism.