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Summary Power and Violence: Community Psychology Interventions
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Definitions of power and violence in South Africa. Implications for interventions in Community Psychology.
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Power, Violence and CommunityPsychology
1. Power is the ability to influence others
2. The ability to • ones position (social status)
influence others • Having access to knowledge or resources (money, skills)
stems from (4) • Having the ability to inflict force or punishment on others
• Through intrapersonal qualities (persuasiveness)
3. Power is inher- relational (exists between individuals and groups)
ently
4. Power is exercise institutions, laws and ideologies
through (3)
5. Power relations a set of actions that cause others to act in a particular way
are
6. Power relations goal-directed activities that draw on inequalities in power
are exercised
through
7. Power only exists put into action and exercised by some over others
when it is
8. A relationship of a mode of action that does not act immediately or directly
power is on others; it acts upon their present or future actions
9. Power relations actions by making them easier or more difficult
can influence
10. A relationship of it closes off possibilities for action
violence is differ-
ent from a rela-
tionship of power
because
11. Violence is an ac- acts upon bodies or things; not actions of others.
tion that
12. To impact oth- use violence
ers actions, pow-
er relations can 1/5
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Psychology
13. Disparities in the choices and opportunities available to individuals or
power can ex- communities
pand or con-
strain
14. Power relations violence
can exist without
15. Power is abused detrimental impacts on others
when it has
16. Community affected by power
well-being is
17. Community psy- use power to promote social justice
chologists aim to
18. Violence the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened
or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a
group or community that either results in, or has a high
likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm,
maldevelopment or deprivation
19. A violation is an infringement of a rule, law or rights of another person
20. Violence is clas- collective and interpersonal violence
sified into (2)
21. Collective vio- acts perpetrated by large groups of people or by na-
lence tions/states to achieve social, political or economic objec-
tives
22. 3 forms of collec- Social, Political, Economic
tive violence
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