ANALYSIS OF

THE NATURE TYPES

DIMENSIONS AND
SOURCES OF POWER
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Recognize the nature,

dimension, and types of
power.
• Identify the dimensions and
sources of power.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

• What is power?
• What are the bases of power?
• What are dimentions of Power?
• What are the sources of Power?
Give one political ideology
ideas that has big impact in
the society, why? Explain.
 Personality
Self-Assessment
Activity
How often do you engage in
them?
0 = never
1= sometimes
2= always
 Personality
Self-Assessment
Activity-result
What is Power?
• Refers to the possession of
authority and influence over
others.
• Is the capacity of a person,
team or organization to
influence others.
What is Power?
• It refers to the ability or right to do
something or to exercise authority over
others.
• It involves the exercise of control or the
ability to impose restrictions over
individuals, as well as compel other people
to do a certain task.
What is Power?
Anthony Giddens (1997) viewed power
as the ability to make a difference, to
change things from what they would
otherwise have been, as he puts it
“transformative capacity”
What is Power?
Hans Morgantheau viewed
power as the power of man
over the minds and actions of
other man.
Bases of Power
1. Coercive Power – a power base on
dependent on fear
2. Reward Power – compliance achieved based
on the ability to distribute rewards that others
view as valuable
3. Legitimate Power – the power a person
receives as a result of his or her position.
4. Information Power – Power from access to
and control over information
Bases of Power
5. Expert Power – influence based on special
skills and knowledge
6. Referent Power – influence based on
possession by an individual of desirable resources
or personal traits.
7. Charismatic Power – an extension of referent
power stemming from an individual’s personality
and interpersonal style.
THE DIMENSIONS OR FACES OF POWER

Stephen Lukes has described 'three

faces of power' (also called the 'three
dimensions of power') in his work Power:
A Radical View (Luke, 1974).
THE DIMENSIONS OR FACES OF POWER

The three (2) faces or dimensions of power

are:
1. the decision making;
2. non-decision making or the setting of
agenda; and
3. Manipulating and shaping the wishes of
others or sometimes called “ideological
power”
 There are three basic
sources of power: force,
influence, and authority
 Force:
• Force is the actual (physical force) or
threatened (latent force) use of coercion
to impose one’s will on others.
• When leaders imprison or even execute
political dissidents, they thus apply
force.
 Influence:
• It is the ability to affect the decisions and
actions of others.
• A citizen may change his or her position
after listening a stirring speech at a rally by
a political leader. This is an example of the
influence of how the efforts to persuade
people can help in changing one’s opinion.
 Authority:
• It is established to make decisions and
order the actions of others.
• It is a form of legitimate power.
• Legitimacy means that those subject to a
government’s authority consent to it
(Giddens, 1997)
Activity: Picture Analysis
Direction. Through a creative interpretation, explain the
image below.
• A song, written using the Filipino or English language,
where the lyrics shall be written on the activity page.
• A spoken poetry using the English or Filipino
language which shall run for 3- 5 minutes, where the
full text shall be written on the activity sheet.
• An essay, which shall consist of 200 words, to be
written on the activity sheet.