CHAPTER 5-POWER

Power has always been something that has been thoroughly apart of our lives. Whether it be your mother or father having power over you, a teacher, or even a political figure it shows us that power has been instilled in us since a very young age. You were taught to obey or listen to the person who had power over you. Chapter 5 speaks about different forms of power where one form of power is the "power to" approach this is basically what empowerment is all about. Not only to people have power over you but you have power over yourself and control your own actions. By empowering yourself an example of that would be motivating yourself to finish a race. There are many other ways of empowerment such as education, organization and networking.

Tyrants, dictators, political leaders, bosses, teachers, and mothers those are examples of people who have or have had power over you. As Robert Dahl said in chapter 5 "A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something B would not otherwise do". In the Milgram Experiment video you see how certain people proceeded with the experiment despite the fact that they were inflicting extreme amounts of pain on someone just because they were being persuaded by a "scientist" who was telling them it was a must that they complete the study therefore some continued. The results of the study were shown that 65% of people continue because they believe that they must continue because they are following an order.

In the reading The 5 Faces of Opression  it basically speaks about the 5 ways that people can make others feel like they are less then them or make them feel less human by possibly treating them in a dehumanizing way. The 5 faces of opression are exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, culture of silence, and violence. In the Milgram Experiment as well as the Stanford Experiment the form of opression used was powerlessness and oppression. In the Milgram experiment powerlessness was used because the participants felt they had to follow the order of the scientist and that was that and as far as the Stanford experiment exploitation was used because the guard treated the prisoners as if they were not human and they were less than them.