
Encyclopaedia Of Women Empowerment
Power has been the focus of such debate within the social sciences. The dominant understanding has been of power as ‘power over’. Where one person, or group of people, is able to control in some way the actions or options of another. This can be overt, such as through the use of physical coercion, or hidden, as when psychological processes are influenced in such a way as to restrict the range of o...
Power has been the focus of such debate within the social sciences. The dominant understanding has been of power as ‘power over’. Where one person, or group of people, is able to control in some way the actions or options of another. This can be overt, such as through the use of physical coercion, or hidden, as when psychological processes are influenced in such a way as to restrict the range of o...