powerstructure

powerstructure (plural powerstructures)

1. (less common) Alternative form of power structure
   • 1982, Anna-Birte Ravn, Bente Rosenbeck, Birte Siim, Capitalism and Patriarchy: Report from a Seminar at Aalborg University Centre, page 93:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

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

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

2. (mathematics) An analog of a power set in the context of mathematical structuralism.