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(in ‘social science’ + ‘politics’, power is the ‘ability to ‘influence’ or ‘outright control’ the ‘behavior’ of ‘people’)
(the term “authority” is often used for ‘power’ perceived as ‘legitimate’ by the ‘social structure’)
(‘power’ can be seen as ‘evil’ or ‘unjust’, but the ‘exercise of power’ is accepted as ‘endemic’ to ‘humans’ as ‘social beings’)
(in ‘business’, power is often expressed as being “upward” or “downward”)
(with ‘downward power’, a company’s ‘superior’ influences ‘subordinates’)
(when a company exerts ‘upward power’, it is the ‘subordinates’ who influence the decisions of their ‘leader’ (or ‘leaders’))
(the use of ‘power’ need not involve ‘force’ or the ‘threat of force’ (aka ‘coercion’))
(at one extreme, it closely resembles what an ‘english-speaking person’ might term “influence”, although some authors distinguish “influence” as a means by which ‘power’ is used)
(one such example is ‘soft power’, as compared to ‘hard power’)
(much of the recent ‘sociological debate’ about ‘power’ revolves around the issue of its means to ‘enable’ – in other words, ‘power’ as a means to make ‘social actions’ possible as much as it may ‘constrain’ or ‘prevent’ them)
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(the philosopher “michel foucault” saw ‘power’ as a ‘structural expression’ of “a ‘complex strategic situation’ in a given ‘social setting'” that requires both ‘constraint’ + ‘enablement’)
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