Power
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Power is a source of social influence and is the measure of a person's ability to control their environment, particularly the behavior of other people.
[edit] In Social Sciences
Power in the social sciences can have different meanings:
- Power (sociology), the ability to make choices or influence outcomes
- Power (communication), power in interpersonal communication
- Need for power N-Pow one of David McClelland's motivation concepts
- Abuse of power
- Political power, power held by a person or group in a society
- Reserve power, a power exercised by a head of state in certain exceptional circumstances
- Power (international), the ability of national states to influence or control other states
[edit] Other
- Economic power has several meanings, including:
- Purchasing power, the amount of goods and services a given amount of money can buy
- Monopoly power, the ability to set the price of a good sold.
- Will to Power, a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
[edit] See also
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