Power Relations Is Still Relevant Today
Power Relations
Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people. In our world today power within the relations is unevenly distributed. Power relationships exists around us and these relationships vary from relationship to relationship and from person to person.
Class, social status and wealth play a big role in power relationships. A class system can be defined as “a system for producing social wealth in which productive resources and the results of production are unevenly divided across different groups”. The working class is ‘exploited’ by the upper class and the money is transferred from the “producers” to the owners. This is known as unequal power relations and this is a relationship in which some have power to control others’ actions and in such power is not evenly distributed evenly among all involved. Class and power interwine in terms of power relations. …show more content…
There is still an uneven distribution of power between men and women today. The male gender is still deemed to be the most dominant sex as society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes that society determines as befitting for both men and women which can also be reason, outcome and change of power relations. The cultural aspect where society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes for men and women still exists today. Women are still expected to stay home, cook, look after the kids and do all the house chores, which is not entirely the women’s job. This in fact shows that women are in fact more stronger and capable of being flexible in different situations, where as men wouldn’t be able to do the same. This instead potrays men to be the ‘weaker sex’ as it takes a strong, driven women to take care of her of family and still be able to do everything else that is expected of
Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people. In our world today power within the relations is unevenly distributed. Power relationships exists around us and these relationships vary from relationship to relationship and from person to person.
Class, social status and wealth play a big role in power relationships. A class system can be defined as “a system for producing social wealth in which productive resources and the results of production are unevenly divided across different groups”. The working class is ‘exploited’ by the upper class and the money is transferred from the “producers” to the owners. This is known as unequal power relations and this is a relationship in which some have power to control others’ actions and in such power is not evenly distributed evenly among all involved. Class and power interwine in terms of power relations. …show more content…
There is still an uneven distribution of power between men and women today. The male gender is still deemed to be the most dominant sex as society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes that society determines as befitting for both men and women which can also be reason, outcome and change of power relations. The cultural aspect where society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes for men and women still exists today. Women are still expected to stay home, cook, look after the kids and do all the house chores, which is not entirely the women’s job. This in fact shows that women are in fact more stronger and capable of being flexible in different situations, where as men wouldn’t be able to do the same. This instead potrays men to be the ‘weaker sex’ as it takes a strong, driven women to take care of her of family and still be able to do everything else that is expected of