Essays on Social Power

Introduction

Power and influence are vital aspects of a business organization since they dictate the prosperity of the particular company. Influential and powerful leaders usually lead the most successful companies around the world. According to French and Raven (57), authority originates from experts, legitimate, reward, and coercive. Principles of influence include commitment, reciprocity, social proof, scarcity, and authority (Seiter and Gass 208). This paper is a report on how power and influence played a role in the organizational structure of the Apple Company.

Power and influence

This section will discuss sources of power and principles of influence as evidenced in Apple Computer. The ...

Introduction

West African region comprises of several states that are found in the western part of the African continent. These states occupy the vast Sahara Desert and is normally referred to as Sahel. West African has gone economic and political revolution since the twentieth century. After the colonial period, several cities in West Africa were converted into independent states.

The region comprises of the states in the Maghreb region, and they occupy a total of 6,140,000 square kilometers

Much of the region depends on Mediterranean politics, and this has made the region to be politically powerful The region witnesses the economic resource imbalance that has resulted in poverty index in the region. Thus, most of the people are economically ...

A. Introduction

Toyota Motors Corporation (Toyota) is a ¥25.69 trillion (US$256.91 billion at ¥100.00:$1 exchange rate used in the 2014 annual report) automotive manufacturing enterprise (Toyota, 2014, p. 26) with four major market regions globally, namely: Japan (home), North America, Europe, Asia, and Other regions (see section C for details). Since 2010, it grew 35.57% from ¥18.95 trillion. Its return on equity has grown from 2.1% in 2010 to 13.7% in 2014, or 6.5 times. Moreover, its return on assets grew 6.7 times from 0.7% in 2010 to 4.7% in 2014. Toyota has one core product (automobiles) and core ...

Nowadays quite a number of school teachers, as well as professors are completely misled in their views towards the most correct, and acceptable form of English language. This partially happens because of the lack of training in language studies, which results not only in the misleading of students, but also in linguistic discrimination of them. If people fail to accept the diversity within the English language, this can turn into a risk of teaching in ways that are both culturally and linguistically non-responsive. That is the exact reason, why sociolinguists are now trying to change the current state by explaining that ...

Introduction

The principle of the double standard of aging is thought to be more prevalent on women as compared to men. This principle dictates that women and men become less attractive as they advance in age, but the rate at which women become less attractive is rapid as compared to men’s rate. This principle has also found evidence of a difference in judgment in relation to masculinity and femininity as far as advancement in age is concerned. For men, there was hardly a difference in their judgment of masculinity while there was a significant difference on the judgment of women’s femininity ...

Part 1

George Ritzer defines socialization as the process that allows an individual to learn and accepts the ways of a group or society as a whole (Ritzer 154). This is the theme for this part of the paper. Individuals would always find themselves in the midst of this process as they go about their daily activities. Socialization becomes inevitable in a dynamic environment where people lives by the cliché no man is an island. For this particular theme, I find myself exploring the realm of socialization in a neutral environment—a party. I refer to this as a neutral environment because while people knows each other ...

Issues of ethics

Introduction Contemporary society has started using information technology and the breakthrough in information technology has also spurred several dilemmas and ethical issues. However, technology itself cannot be blamed for being the single most factor leading to the creation of ethical failures. The capability of information technology to enhance both mental and physical powers of individuals has rather led to immoral activities. The basic opinion on technology is that it is a system or a tool which facilitates human beings in attaining their objectives. On the basis of this opinion, the ontological presupposition is that social and technical are different ...

What are we? Why are we here, on this planet? What are our goals and how to achieve them? All of these questions worry our minds through the whole our existence. We try to find the reason for us to live and sometimes do not notice the obvious things. In my opinion, the answers to these questions are lying in the understanding of our nature which is usually similar to the animals` one. Bertrand Russell wrote "the fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics." So ...

New Orleans is a city that is strategically situated at the Mississippi River gateway and stands on top of what used to be an ernomous swam. In “An Unnatural Metropolis”, the author Craig E Colten explores how the city of New Orleans came to be and how the contradictory forces of urban development and nature influenced or shaped its development. Colten traces some of the engineered modifications of the natural environment of New Orleans from the 19th to the 21 century. He illustrates that although it is natural thing for cities to contend with their immediate physical setting, the city ...

As a girls softball coach, I have had a long-time interest in training the athletes I coach to help them become better athletes on the field as well as better people -- characterized by self-discipline, resilience, teamwork, sportsmanship, and goal orientation -- off the field. I have found throughout several years of experience that these are not easy qualities to instill in young women as the game of girls softball is not an easy sport to learn let alone master. Observational learning and the opportunities it offers for improvement in the level of play in my team are myriad. Both the ...

1. Responsibilities of a democratic nation towards poor families In the view of social power, democracy has to be based on building faith and confidence in the subjects. Democracy, therefore, needs to be founded on the self-respect and the worth every individual in the collective humanity. In other words, democracy strives to ensure that every social action is in the interest of a simple majority (Gyats, 2012). In a democratic system, upholding human dignity, rights and freedom is supreme. Every democratic society, therefore, has a myriad of responsibilities towards the poor families. In deed poverty is an enemy that must be ...

Question 1

Every society is characterized by both formal and informal rules, controls and restrictions that usually constrain people to that society’s social norms. However, in spite of these social sanctions or controls, some individuals tend to deviate and engage in what is referred to as deviant behaviour. Deviant behaviour normally comprises of behaviour that differs or fluctuates from the values and norms of wider society. Individuals are presumed to engage in deviant behaviour when they act or dress in ways that are contrary to the norms and values of their immediate society (Adler and Adler 2012). A group ...

Gender inequality has been a major issue from the old times and it still remains to be a controversial issue particularly for women. There are a number of gender disparities in the world. Some of the gender inequalities are displayed in “Happy Ending” by Margret Atwood. The reference of “Happy Ending” is going to be used often through this paper since it is the book being studied. Women have always been subjected to lower social power compared to men. In Margaret Atwood’s story “Happy Ending”, there are instances of these forms of gender inequality. It is evident, according to the author, ...

Facilitator:

The social world is complex with many people struggling to control the society either through manipulating the people or ownership of resources. At the work place, power and control is often identifiable. The power may or not be accepted by the people, but the fact remains that they are still subjects to the power (Mann, 1986). Power at the workplace includes coercive power, legitimate power, referent power, and skill-based power. However, the distribution of power at the workplace is not even. Some people have more power compared to others based on factors such as gender, personality, age, and history. ...

Introduction

Nowadays lots of books, manuals and trainings are worked out to teach people leadership. All of them introduce completely different visions of what leadership actually is. According to Richard L Daft (2008), most common definitions of leadership include such elements as influence, intention, personal responsibility and integrity, change, shared purpose and followers (5). Five most important leadership practices, singled out by James M. Kouzes& Barry Z. Posner, are modeling the way, inspiring shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act and encouraging the heart (26). Despite the fact that theoretic data on leadership is fully available, leadership ...

In many organizations, certain individuals are able to exercise power and authority depending on their position and role they exercise. This puts them in control of making decisions, influencing people and also getting work done willingly from their colleagues. Such rights allotted to an individual stem from the concept of exercising power which is legitimate and in certain situations accepted by all. Legitimate power is one of the many types of power which an individual demonstrates when they perform the role of a leader. Power can be used both positively and negatively. According to research done by John R.P ...

Ideological Views on Social Change

Introduction In sociology, the idea that Weber's writing and study of social stratification represents a, "Dialogue with the ghost of Marx" is most evident when you compare their views on social stratification and capitalism. We find in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, that Weber spoke to many of the same concerns brought about by Marx; it can also be found that Weber came to a noticeablydiverse assumption to social change than that of Marx interpretation. Weber is often seen as a Theorist of Conflict, he often speaks of the way in which social structures can cause social behaviour ...

Arguably, the movement from Fordism to post-Fordism had tremendous changes in the global. As a matter of fact, these impacts are still realized and continue to affect the world. The organizations of capitalism during this era had far much reaching consequences that were cultural, social, economic and political. These changes influence the attitudes and workplace relationships between a woman and men. Fordism entails an era of mass consumption and production that was characterized by developed economies of 1940s-1960s. During this time, a combination of mass production and mass consumption led to the realization of material advancement and sustained economic growth. It was ...

Arguably, understanding culture is crucial to educators in all fields of human life. An individual cultural orientation takes place in every aspect of human interaction. Due to globalization and diversity, culture and cultural concepts has been made more complex. Often, people make assumptions on individual belief and behaviors based on one cultural indicator, which is specifically ethnicity. In the real sense, global identities are complex and diverse weave of various cultural affiliations that individuals belongs influence our behaviors, beliefs, as well as values. Culture is a learned behavior, and it surrounds all activities of human nature. Its complexity includes morals, ...