Relational Power Aspects

To understand changing patterns of global power is no easy feat, but several theories may give us an insight to the shift of power in our modern world, I wish to talk about these theories and how we can use them to better understand our past and present global power situations.

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

If the United States of America is considered one of the most powerful countries in the world, how did that come to be? The United States has always had significant influence on other countries regarding technology, business practices, lifestyle, and more. However, American Imperialism is evidence of how much influence America has on other governments. Which is the notion of expanding America’s military, economic and cultural ideologies into other territories. American Imperialism started during the Spanish-American war in the late 1890’s. This was the start of America’s expansion and involvement in foreign affairs.

Social workers are given the task of developing and maintaining self-awareness as apart of effective and ethical practice. A pertinent part of self-awareness as one who works with those who are often powerless is the acknowledgement and proper management of the privilege we possess. Practitioners who use the relationship as the primary intervention must be aware of how power and privilege affect the helping relationships that they engage in. As a social worker, I attempt to be aware of the fluidity of power and acknowledge it as well as experiences of oppression and how the two affect my practice and relationship with the populations I serve.

I also agree with the cause of power and rivalry, for example, some European countries defended their territories during the Ottoman Empire conflict. The European had their alliance and pursued an individual interest. They bounded together openly and in secret treaties. Despite their unity, there was power rivalry, such as the Triple Alliance, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy versus the Triple Entente comprises of Britain, France and Russian. On the other hand, there was a power struggle between Austria-Hungary and Russia ( Herenetta 2012, 641). Power is one cause of the World

Throughout relationships, what separates them from healthy and unhealthy is a wide spectrum of uncertainty. Furthermore, not every relationship will be stagnant throughout each person’s lifetime. In this paper, I will be discussing the lengths of my relationship with a good friend of mine, Devon. Furthermore, I can pinpoint some areas in the Power and Control Wheel that may have been of use when we were younger. Also, I see an importance of the Equality wheel and how it relates to our relationship today.

Gender roles and power dynamics have been a topic of great debate in regards to their portrayal in horror films. Over time, the horror genre’s boundaries, as well as ideas of gender roles, have become less strictly defined and many see this as being observable by looking at films from different points in time. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) are both horror films which feature gender roles in different ways, although there are also similarities. The use of gender roles and their representation can be said to evolve over time as society’s views of gender roles also changed. There is a noticeable focus on sexual desires in both films, which relates to the role of sexuality in people’s views of

In order to begin this topic of discourse it is first essential to understand the role of “Power Knowledge Nexus” that is described in Maggie Ibrahim piece The securitization of Migration: A racial discourse, this nexus is based on Michel Foucault's assertion that power can be made or used through the “production of truth”. The characteristics of the Power Knowledge Nexus are that in discourse power is produced which then leads government policies that legitimize said discourse Although Ibrahim uses the case of Canada's changing legislation on refugees and immigrants, this can be applied to the United States and its present “truths” regarding Mexican and Central American Immigrants. During the election Mexican immigrants were specifically

America has a lot of attributing factors that will keep up on the power shift. I think as we progress we will continue to be on the top end of countries with power control in regards to Globalization. The East does have some factors that keeps it a key player, but we can play just a hard and will continue to do

1. Power- control over people or things. 2. Power Relations- the sharing of power between people in a relationship.

The balance of power theory represents a body of interrelated concepts for achieving security and stability by maintaining an equal distribution of power throughout the international system. Some critics contend that the theory cannot provide guidance to states in a unipolar system since it developed out of centuries of multipolarity and recent decades of bipolarity. This assessment is incorrect. Although a specific conception of balance of power theory may not provide guidance, an appraisal of the concepts within its various forms suggests continuing relevance. This paper discusses balance of power theory by examining its evolution, and asserts that the concept remains relevant in a unipolar international system.

Suppose you plan to customize a chocolate box for your significant other as a birthday gift, perhaps with some rough ideas about the types of chocolate he/she likes. How much variety will you choose for this assortment? If you happen to feel powerful or powerless when you make the choice, will your desire for variety be affected by the incidental power feelings? By contrast, if you need to customize the chocolate box for your family and friends instead of romantic partners, will your preference for variety be also influenced by the power feelings?

There has been some recent argument against the current understanding of the place of relationships in psychotherapy. While most theories argue that relationships are important or even essential to good mental health, other theorists claim that the way relationships are conceptualized in these theories is insufficient (Slife & Wiggins, 2009). Most of these theories conceptualize the individuals first, and then talk about the way these individuals relate. Relationships are often understood as two or more independent self-contained individuals interacting (Slife & Wiggins, 2009). An alternative way to look at relationships is offered by relational psychoanalysts and other theorists, though again it should be noted that

In my understanding, power relation is dealing with how people from different groups are able to communicate / interact and influence/direct others from different groups. To understand power relations is very important because it is can be considered as our mental state or in other words it is our ability to understand and recognise our relationship with the audience. As our audience might have different interest and way of thinking that caused by their background (age, rank, education etc )

Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian, social theorist, philologist and literary critic whose work had a tremendous impact on several disciplines. He was not a sociologist by training, but he worked diligently on sociological issues and otherwise had significant influence on the work of other sociologists. One of his most famous works is the The History of Sexuality, in which he examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life. According to Foucault, the idea that everyone has a sexuality is relatively a recent development in the West. In Volume 1, Foucault discusses the relationship between sex and power in a historical context. He states that the ways in which humans think about sexuality is primarily shaped by the "repressive hypothesis," which claims that Western society had suppressed sexuality from the 17th to the mid-20th century, and this was due to the rise of capitalism and the bourgeois society. There are several key concepts in this book that will be discussed in this paper include repressive hypothesis, sexuality, power, and discourse. This paper will seek to show the ways in which sexuality is a discursive object, and how sexuality was linked to power throughout history.