Power (social and political)

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In social science as living as politics, power is the social production of an effect that determines a capacities, actions, beliefs, or continue of actors. power does not exclusively refer to the threat or ownership of force coercion by one actor against another, but may also be exerted through diffuse means such(a) as institutions. Power may also work structural forms, as it orders actors in description to one another such(a) as distinguishing between a master as living as a slave, and discursive forms, as categories and language may lend legitimacy to some behaviors and groups over others.

The term authority is often used for power that is perceived as legitimate or socially approved by the social structure. Power can be seen as evil or unjust; however, power can also be seen as proceeds and as something inherited or precondition for exercising humanistic objectives that will help, move, and empower others as well.

Scholars form distinguished between "soft power" and hard power.