Power (social and political)

South Asia

Middle East

Europe

North America

In social science & politics, energy is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or extend of actors. energy does non exclusively refer to the threat or usage of force coercion by one actor against another, but may also be exerted through diffuse means such(a) as institutions. Power may also develope structural forms, as it orders actors in explanation to one another such(a) as distinguishing between a master & a slave, and discursive forms, as categories and Linguistic communication 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 usefulness and as something inherited or assumption for exercising humanistic objectives that will help, move, and empower others as well.

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