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 . (''Management consultancy, distressingly common''): A [[fashionable idea]] someone else had recently that you are now cottoning on to that promises to, but won’t, profoundly change the commercial world.
-. A [[power structure]]: the political organisation around an idea, that confers authority on those who have qualified themselves to husband that idea. This can be obvious and institutional, as with a political organisation or the scientific academy — but it can be small-time: that’s how all power structures start: a student union is a power structure, a chat forum is a power structure. Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an organised and compelling way — have a power structure. [[Critical theory]] has a power structure. Power structures often outgrow their original purpose, because it is not the ''purpose'' but the ''power'' that is exciting.
+. '''A [[hierarchy]] or [[power structure]]''': the political organisation around an idea, that confers authority on those who have qualified themselves to husband that idea.
 ==Thomas Kuhn’s paradigms==