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The Bases of Social Power - Communication Cache
20 The Bases of Social Power JOHN R. P. FRENCH, JR., AND BERTRAM RAVEN The processes of Power are pervasive, complex, and often disguised in our society. Accordingly one finds in political science, in sociology, and in Social psychology a variety of distinctions among different types of Social Power or among qualitatively different processes of Social influence (1, 7, 14, 20, 23, 29, 30, 38, 40). Our main purpose is to identify the major types of Power and to define them systematically so that we may compare them according to the changes which they produce and the other effects which accompany the use of Power . The phenomena of Power and influence involve a dyadic relation between two agents which may be viewed from two points of view: (o) What determines the behavior of the agent who exerts Power ?
The Bases of Social Power 261 SOCIAL POWER The strength of power of O/P in some sys tem a is defined as the maximum potential ability of O to influence P in a. By this definition influence is kinetic power, just as power is potential influence. It is assumed that O is capable of various acts which, because of some more or less enduring
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