"Power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors."
Many Deconstructionists are interested in exploring the ways in which power operates within social, political, and cultural structures, and how it shapes individual and collective experiences.
Power: The ability to influence or control others or events. The sources and types of power, such as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert.
Politics: The process by which individuals and groups make decisions and allocate resources in a social system. The various types of political systems, such as democracies, autocracies, and theocratic states.
Deconstruction: A critical approach that seeks to reveal the hidden or implicit assumptions and biases in a text or discourse. The key concepts of deconstruction, such as the binary oppositions, the supplementary, and the trace.
Hegemony: The dominance of one social group or class over others. The theories of hegemony, such as Gramsci's cultural hegemony.
Ideology: A system of beliefs, values, and ideas that shapes how people view the world and their place in it. The major ideologies, such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and fascism.
Political culture: The values, beliefs, and attitudes that shape the behaviors of individuals and groups in a political system. The major types of political culture, such as parochial, subject, and participant.
Gender and power: The ways in which gender influences the distribution of power and status in society. The theories and debates surrounding gender and power, such as feminist political theory.
Intersectionality: The ways in which multiple identities, such as gender, race, class, and sexuality, intersect to shape experiences of power and oppression. The theories and debates surrounding intersectionality, such as critical race theory.
Postcolonialism: A critical perspective that examines the legacy of colonialism and imperialism in shaping power relations in the world today. The key concepts and theories of postcolonialism, such as Orientalism and subaltern studies.
Resistance and social movements: The ways in which individuals and groups resist power and the strategies they use to effect social change. The theories and debates surrounding resistance and social movements, such as civil disobedience and mass protest.
Coercive Power: The ability to influence behavior through the use of force or punishment.
Reward Power: The ability to influence behavior through the use of rewards or incentives.
Legitimate Power: The ability to influence behavior through authority or position.
Expert Power: The ability to influence behavior through specialized knowledge or information.
Referent Power: The ability to influence behavior through personal likability or charisma.
Information Power: The ability to influence behavior through access to valuable information.
Connection Power: The ability to influence behavior through personal connections or relationships.
Social Power: The ability to influence behavior through social norms or cultural expectations.
Structural Power: The ability to influence behavior through the control of resources or decision-making processes.
Ideological Power: The ability to influence behavior through the manipulation of belief systems or values.
"Power does not exclusively refer to the threat or use of force (coercion) by one actor against another."
"Power may also be exerted through diffuse means (such as institutions)."
"Power may also take structural forms, as it orders actors in relation to one another."
"Discursive forms of power exist as categories and language may lend legitimacy to some behaviors and groups over others."
"The term authority is often used for power that is perceived as legitimate or socially approved by the social structure."
"Power can be seen as evil or unjust; however, power can also be seen as good and as something inherited or given for exercising humanistic objectives that will help, move, and empower others as well."
"Scholars have distinguished between soft power and hard power."
"Power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors."
"Power may also be exerted through diffuse means (such as institutions)."
"Power takes structural forms, as it orders actors in relation to one another."
"Categories and language may lend legitimacy to some behaviors and groups over others."
"The term authority is often used for power that is perceived as legitimate or socially approved by the social structure."
"Power can be seen as evil or unjust; however, power can also be seen as good."
"Power can be inherited or given for exercising humanistic objectives that will help, move, and empower others."
"Power can also be seen as good and as something inherited or given for exercising humanistic objectives that will help, move, and empower others."
"Scholars have distinguished between soft power and hard power."
"Power may take structural forms, discursive forms, and can be exerted through diffuse means."
"Power orders actors in relation to one another (such as distinguishing between a master and an enslaved person, a householder and their relatives, an employer and their employees, a parent and a child, a political representative and their voters...)."
"The term authority is often used for power that is perceived as legitimate or socially approved by the social structure."