Power is a relationship between people; to clarify A won’t do what B wants unless B has power. Power is to achieve goals against other people will. Power is the ability or potential to influence outcomes in order to achieve an objective. Different types of power are usually blended together in order to achieve the required outcome.
First type of power is Force; Force is the exercise of power by physical means. Force can include Physical violence and acts of physical obstruction. “For example restraining, assaulting, raping, assassinating, impeding access to objects. It also can include physical sabotage of resources and conducting war. Or it can be carried out in the form of embargoes and boycotts or revolutions and riots.”(Shively, 45) There are many examples of violent use of force like, invasion of Iraq, terrorists’ attacks or the Conflict in the DRC, which forced children in militia. But force doesn’t always have to be violent, peaceful protesting is not violent, Or Martin Luther king perusing black rights or Cesar Chaves. Many examples proofed that force can be non-violent and the non-violent use of force is the most effective way to use force. Force can be used in creative ways to achieve the required out come. A recent example is people complaining from Internet service so they decided to pay their bills in form of coins, no violence was used just a creative way of using force. This type of non-violent force is effective if done by small groups because it is inexpensive compared with other types of power.
Second type is Persuasion; it’s a non-physical type of power in which the agent using this power makes his intensions and desires known to the agent over whom power is exercised that is altered from his preferred cours...
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various forms that power may take, such as money and coercion, which are negated as valid forms
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Power is authority and strength, which is any form of motive force or energy, ability to act, or control. When too much power is given, a dictatorship government can form, in which all decisions are made by one authority. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell the author portrays how “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).
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The fascism that ultimately resulted in the globally destructive reaction of World War Two was a product of the self-inhibition of the masses that still holds power today in the form of a Freudian 'pleasure versus pain' culture. To break free from the self-inhibition and fascism that still determines much of modern society today is to open one's mind to the necessity of self-determined empowerment contrary to self-inhibition.
It was during the 1920’s to the 1940’s that totalitarian control over the state escalated into full dictatorships, with the wills of the people being manipulated into a set of beliefs that would promote the fascist state and “doctrines”.
While the definition of power is a point of contention among scholars such as Morgenthau and Waltz, there is a general agreeance that power in an international sense is the ability to coerce a decision based on the political, military or economic clout a nation is able to exert onto another. By this definition the Cold War era of human history is one of the most prevalent examples of both economic and political power (referred too as “Hard” power) as well as cultural influence as a form of power (known instead as “soft” power). In the post-World War 2 era the balance of power theory played a major role in the international relations between the two superpowers, being the United States of America and The USSR through constant volleying of
Power is the ability to make laws and govern a certain area. Power is usually held by the government who determines how citizens should or should not act and also what rights people have. Power can also give the government the ability to discriminate against a certain race or group of people. For example, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt created Executive Order 9066 which ordered Japanese Americans to relocate to internment camps to “protect against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material.”[1] Since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans were stereotyped as dangerous and disloyal to the United States. Another example of power was when the southern states passed literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent African Americans from voting in the late 1900s.
The term power has a variety of definitions. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the first definition of power refers to “the ability or capacity to act or do something effectively”, also include “a capacity, faculty, or aptitude,” (“power. (n.d.)
power is the ability to take arms and defend the nation in a time of crisis or invasion of another
C. Wright Mills in his article “ The Structure of Power in American Society” writes that when considering the types of power that exist in modern society there are three main types which are authority, manipulation and coercion. Coercion can be seen as the “last resort” of enforcing power. On the other hand, authority is power that is derived from voluntary action and manipulation is power that is derived unbeknownst to the people who are under that power.
Power has been defined as the psychological relations over another to get them to do what you want them to do. We are exposed to forms of power from the time of birth. Our parents exercise power over us to behave in a way they deem appropriate. In school, teachers use their power to help us learn. When we enter the work world the power of our boss motivates us to perform and desire to move up the corporate ladder so that we too can intimidate someone with power one day. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Kurtz had a power over the jungle and its people that was inexplicable.
Some theorists believe that ‘power is everywhere: not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere… power is not an institution, nor a structure, nor possession. It is the name we give to a complex strategic situation in a particular society. (Foucault, 1990: 93) This is because power is present in each individual and in every relationship. It is defined as the ability of a group to get another group to take some form of desired action, usually by consensual power and sometimes by force. (Holmes, Hughes &Julian, 2007) There have been a number of differing views on ‘power over’ the many years in which it has been studied. Theorist such as Anthony Gidden in his works on structuration theory attempts to integrate basic structural analyses and agency-centred traditions. According to this, people are free to act, but they must also use and replicate fundamental structures of power by and through their own actions. Power is wielded and maintained by how one ‘makes a difference’ and based on their decisions and actions, if one fails to exercise power, that is to ‘make a difference’ then power is lost. (Giddens: 1984: 14) However, more recent theorists have revisited older conceptions including the power one has over another and within the decision-making processes, and power, as the ability to set specific, wanted agendas. To put it simply, power is the ability to get others to do something they wouldn’t otherwise do. In the political arena, therefore, power is the ability to make or influence decisions that other people are bound by.