¿Qué es el PODER? | Poder COACCIONADO, CONDICIONADO y COMPENSATORIO | Explicación y Ejemplos

Clear, simple, and illustrated explanation of POWER. It includes a very didactic explanation that answers What is power? (Concept of power - power relationship - command and obedience - coercion and consent) What are and what are the instruments of power? (Power by coerced, conditioned and compensatory) and How is power related to the State? (Notion of POLITICAL POWER). ⌚Time stamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:21 What is power? 1:18 Power relations. Coercion and Consent 2:10 Instruments of POWER - Power by coerce 2:51 Instruments of POWER. Conditional power 3:48 Instruments of POWER. Compensatory power (Political Clientism and Corruption). 5:18 Power and the State 5:39 Closing and best wishes Transcription: One of the definitions of the Spanish royal academy says: that power is THE domain, faculty and jurisdiction that someone has to command or execute something. But if we deepen this concept we can understand that Power is a relationship that links people or groups in a relationship of command and obedience. That is, people who want, order or desire something or action from other people and those who give, comply or do what is asked of them. Command and obedience imply each other (there is no command without obedience, nor obedience without command). Power relationships exist in all areas of life. In the State, in a job, in the family, or even in a group of friends. There is always someone who exercises greater power over others. Who influences the group to do something certain. Most of the time power serves to organize and make decisions. Let's resume... The power relationship always has, to various extents, coercion on the part of those who command and consent on the part of those who obey. Ideally it should be a balance. If the person in power abuses those who obey, sooner or later they may stop being obeyed. If you impose too much coercion the relationship can break down. While, if you do not know how to exercise that power, no one may obey you. Power is useless without obedience. Now, there are different instruments or ways by which power is used to obtain obedience from people. Power by coerce: Uses punishment or the threat of punishment to obtain obedience. Examples of ancient civilizations automatically come to mind where physical violence and fear were exercised to achieve domination of the population. But... there is also coerced power in today's society. For example, the State exercises this power by establishing sanctions for those behaviors that are prohibited: Jail and fines are "punishments" for crimes and infractions. The law enshrines this power. Conditioned power: Uses persuasion, education, manipulation and indoctrination, so that people accept the norms and values ​​that are transmitted by whoever exercises power. An example of conditioned power is military indoctrination. When people are trained in a completely planned and structured life to act and think in a certain way and they cannot even imagine a different world. Think about the relationship between military dictatorships and books. Why do you think they prohibited the reading of many works? Compensatory power: Obtains obedience by granting some reward valued by the individual who submits. Praise is a symbolic form of compensatory power. Another way is money. In fact, in most employment relationships, the worker meets the demands of the employer, or his or her job, expecting to receive a sum of money in return. In the world of politics, political clientelism is called an exercise of compensatory power: Obtaining political support in exchange for favors, for example, money, positions in the State or positions. In general, clientelism operates as a network of community leadership, led by zonal or neighborhood leaders, who are responsible for solving the basic needs of their followers, in exchange for obtaining their support in different ways. Mmm...You shouldn't attend to those basic needs without expecting anything in return... Let's continue... Another political phenomenon that is related to countervailing power is corruption: For example, an official takes a measure that favors the economic interests of a company and it is later discovered that that official received money from that company. In that case, the countervailing power of a part of society over a part of the government reverses the power relationship to the benefit of a sector. BEWARE OF THIS. It's something very, very bad. When the power relationship is established between rulers and the governed, it is called POLITICAL POWER and when this power lasts over time it gives rise to an organization called the STATE. #ThePower #CitizenEducation #SecondaryContents