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POWER
An Important Question
Unit 2 Lecture Notes
In our last lesson we learned that systems are an organized way of doing something.
We also learned that oppression is when one group of people benefits from exploiting or abusing another group of people.
Power
There are different kinds of oppression that people have sorted into categories. Those oppressions happen on at least three levels.
Systems of oppression exist because
they help oppressors acquire power.
We study all these things just to be able to look at an important question:
Power is the ability to control
situations and events in life.
Power can be shared among people
or it can be used to benefit the few
who possess it.
Oppressed people resist those in power.
Systems Channel Power
Types of Power
Power can be used over other people. The people under that power are being controlled.
Those who have power often use it to protect the power they have, or gather even more.
Power can also be used with others.
In this situation power is being shared.
Systems of oppression are used by
powerful people to gather more power.
In situations where power is shared people often work together to control situations in life.
When power is used over people to oppress them, people usually behave in the same way…
Societal systems of oppression channel power
by giving certain groups of people privileges that others do not have.
Economic systems of oppression channel
power by controlling access to things that
people need.
Political systems of oppression channel
power by limiting or expanding people’s
ability to make decisions.
Those with power are able
to create systems that oppress
or do not oppress people.
In situations where people are being oppressed,
we are challenged to look at who has power and how they use it.
Why do systems of oppression exist?