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2024-25 - ATKT Set 2 75/25 Examination
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SECTION I
Q. No. 1: Answer the following questions in two Sentences
Any Six · (12 Marks - 2 marks each)
1.What is power? Write any two characteristics of power.[2]
Answer
Power is the capacity to make others behave as one wishes, even against their will. Max Weber: power is "the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance". Robert Dahl put it more simply: A has power over B to the extent that A can get B to do something B would not otherwise do.
Two characteristics:
- It is relational, not a possession. Power exists only within a relationship. Nobody has power in the abstract; a person has power over somebody, in respect of something, so A may have power over B and none at all over C.
- It is coercive, resting on sanctions. Power carries the ability to impose consequences, by force, by withholding a benefit or by threat, and obedience to it is given from fear of those consequences. That is what distinguishes it from authority, where obedience is given because the command is thought rightful.
Others that would earn the marks: power is unequally distributed; it is dynamic, shifting as resources shift; it must be exercised or it lapses; and it is purposive, aimed at a result.
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