Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'.
Shuli Barzilai, Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
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