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Power
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Def: When Power is inequitably distributed in a group and dominance becomes the focus, system wide power struggles often ensue.
Transacting power in groups can involve any of five general responses. These responses are Compliance, Alliance, Resistance, Defiance, and Significance.
Compliance is the process of consenting to the dictates and desires of others.
Alliances are associations in the form of subgroups entered into for mutual benefit or a common objective.
Resistance is normally the choice of the less powerful. Resistance is a covert form of communicating noncompliance, and it is often duplicitous and manipulative.
Defiance is an overt form of communicating noncompliance. Defiance, like resistance, is a prevention form of power, but unlike resistance there is no ambiguity or subtlety.
1. How are obedience and conformity similar to and different from each other?
When group members grow tired of being dominated by more powerful individuals, they can do more than merely resist or defy.
2. Why are defiant members a threat to the group?
3. In what ways do aggressiveness and assertiveness differ?