Act of Dominance
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An Act of Dominance is a social act that ...
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- See: Social Role, Power (Social and Political), Dominance and Submission, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Science, Power (Sociology), Social Status.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/expressions_of_dominance Retrieved:2017-11-4.
- Power and dominance-submission are two key dimensions of relationships, especially close relationships in which parties rely on one another to achieve their goals [1] and as such it is important to be able to identify indicators of dominance. [2] Power is the ability to influence behavior [3] and may not be fully assessable until it is challenged with equal force. [4] Unlike power, which can be latent, dominance is a manifest condition characterized by individual, [5] situational and relationship patterns in which attempts to control another party or parties may or may not be accepted. [6] Moskowitz, Suh, and Desaulniers (1994) describe two similar ways that people can relate to society as parties to interpersonal relationships: agency and communion. Agency includes status and is on a continuum from assertiveness-dominance to passive-submissiveness; it can be measured by subtracting submissiveness from dominance. Communion includes love and falls on a continuum from warm-agreeable to cold-hostile-quarrelsome. Those with the greatest and least power typically do not assert dominance while those with more equal relationships make more control attempts. [7]
Power and dominance are closely related concepts that greatly impact relationships. In order to understand how dominance captures relationships one must understand the influence of gender and social roles while watching for verbal and nonverbal indicators of dominance.
- Power and dominance-submission are two key dimensions of relationships, especially close relationships in which parties rely on one another to achieve their goals [1] and as such it is important to be able to identify indicators of dominance. [2] Power is the ability to influence behavior [3] and may not be fully assessable until it is challenged with equal force. [4] Unlike power, which can be latent, dominance is a manifest condition characterized by individual, [5] situational and relationship patterns in which attempts to control another party or parties may or may not be accepted. [6] Moskowitz, Suh, and Desaulniers (1994) describe two similar ways that people can relate to society as parties to interpersonal relationships: agency and communion. Agency includes status and is on a continuum from assertiveness-dominance to passive-submissiveness; it can be measured by subtracting submissiveness from dominance. Communion includes love and falls on a continuum from warm-agreeable to cold-hostile-quarrelsome. Those with the greatest and least power typically do not assert dominance while those with more equal relationships make more control attempts. [7]
- ↑ Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005
- ↑ Russel (as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005) describes, "the fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same way that energy is the fundamental concept in physics&rdquo
- ↑ (Bachrach and Lawler; Berger; Burgoon et al. ; Foa and Foa; French and Raven; Gray-Little and Burks; Henley; Olson and Cromwell; Rollins and Bahr, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005)
- ↑ (Huston, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005)
- ↑ Komter, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005)
- ↑ (Rogers-Millar and Millar, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005)
- ↑ Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005