THE POWER

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THE POWER

THE POWER AS DEFINITION: It refers to the capacity of executing an hegemonic domain in one or many individuals.

It also can be denominate as the hability of influence in a population (Faculty of command).

power is synonymous with strength, ability or domain

philosophical definitions of power

Michel Foucault

truth and power

- talk about corporality (tool used by states to have control)

power: ability to impose the truth (shape thoughts), the power creates the truth.

Truth: It does not exist, there is only the interpretation of the truth, concepts that are repeated and taken as truth.

Corporality

social builings

social panorama: vision to control the society

talcott parsons

Power must be exercised by directing the population in some way and helping it.

presence of subsystems

(subsidy implementation is seen)

Marxism

represented by Antonio Gramsci

class struggle

he explained power as a constant class struggle

important concept

Cultural hegemony: strengthen power

Eric Wolf

Proposes 4 different modes of power

personal, relational, organizational and structural.

Personal: the ability of a individual person to do something. (strength)

Relational: Ability to impose ideas on others.

Organizational: (convincing individuals), ability to influence a group

structural: it refers to a complex power like the state has.

Marx Weber

(opportunity as an individual)

for him ther is two types of power

A legal power and a ilegal power

legal and illegal power:

According to Marx Weber, legal power is what is recognized by the population, and refers to illegal power as the type of power that is not.

key concepts

persuasion: Direct or indirect ability to make someone accomplish something.

-Delegated Authority: Democracy -Social influence or authority -Membership in a social class -Personal or collective charisma -Ability -Awareness -Communication -Money -Domain

Divitions of power

Public

-It´s understand as the faculty of command and be obeyed

-Public as the state activity

-It´s define then as, the capacity that the state have to obligate someone to realize

Politic

It´s understand as a logical consequence of exercicing functions by part of the people that occup a representative charge inside the governamental system from a country

It is identify in democratic systems, with the power

Characteristics

-There isn´t just one definition of power

-Is hegemonic

-Is located

-It have to be recognized by the population, if not it wouldn´t have validity