Power Structure

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A Power Structure is a hierarchy of competence predicated on influence between an individual and other entities in a group.



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  • (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/power_structure Retrieved:2023-8-6.
    • In political sociology, but also operative within the rest of the animal kingdom, a power structure is a hierarchy of competence or aggression (might) predicated on influence between an individual and other entities in a group. A power structure focuses on the way power and authority is related between people within groups such as a government, nation, institution, organization, or a society. [1] Such structures are of interest to various fields, including sociology, government, economics, and business. Power structures can be formally organized, such as a military or a church. Conversely, a power structure may be an informal set of roles, such as those found in a dominance hierarchy in which members of a social group interact, often aggressively, to create a ranking system. A culture that is organized in a dominance hierarchy is a dominator culture, the opposite of an egalitarian culture of partnership.A visible, dominant group or elite that holds power or authority within a power structure is often referred to as being the Establishment. Power structures are fluid, with changes occurring constantly, either slowly or rapidly, evolving or revolutionary, peacefully or violently.
  1. G. William Domhoff, Thomas R. Dye, Power Elites and Organizations (1987), p. 9.