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POWER
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AN EXTENDED DEFINITION
• Power has the capacity to change things … it is a means of constraining people and reducing their freedom, or increasing the freedom of action of the agents who possess it … it can either be restrictive or enabling …
• Giddens, A, 1993, Sociology
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DEFINING POWERFUL
• Defining powerful...• Powerful
• 1. Having much power or strength
• 2. Politically or socially influential
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DEFINING POWERLESS
• Powerless
• 1. Without power or strength
• 2. Wholly unable
• All definitions are from the Australian Oxford Dictionary, 1999.
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TYPES OF POWER
• Personal Power
• Institutional or Structural Power
• Social Power
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PERSONAL POWER
• Personal Power is the power a person feels when they make decisions and choices such as to take or not to take action.
• Personal Power is the power a person has when they know what they want and they know what they need to do to get what they want.
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INSTITUTIONAL POWER
• Institutional / Structural Power is inherent in the practices and meanings of institutions such as the law, marriage, language, family, political system and so on.
• Institutional / Structural Power can also be expressed by active discrimination, omission, silence and the enforcement of ideologies.
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SOCIAL POWER
• Social power is the power dynamics displayed in the day to day relations between people in social situations.
• This power can be derived from things such as educational background, positions of authority, status, gender, sexual orientation, race and so on.
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
• There is an old saying that knowledge is power.
• Without knowledge and understanding you cannot have power because you can’t understand the dynamics, the structures or yourself.
• Gaining knowledge (and then gaining power) is called Empowerment.
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EMPOWERMENT
• Empowerment is having personal power.
• It is understanding the situation.
• It is about using your personal power to take actions.