Power, Status, Inequality, and Justice: Experiments in Power Dynamics
Substantial social inequality not only means greater deprivation for the least powerful, but also poorer health for entire societies, and often, mistrust. To address social inequality we must be concerned with what conditions enable those with more to get more, and which facilitate those with little getting more. These are questions of power dynamics. I introduce Power Basis Theory, which promotes an ecological understanding of power as empowerment, to consider how contexts can afford need-fulfillment or curtail...
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