How is both perceived power and real power both beneficial as well as detrimental?

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Casey Phillips

Social Studies

13 January, 21:15

How is both perceived power and real power both beneficial as well as detrimental?

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Deanna Cain · Answer 1

Power and perceived power are a very important factors in human life in order to achieve goals. A person needs to perceived she or he has the power to make decisions, to lead his or her life and to influence with it's ideas to others. This is how necessary and benefitial it is to both percieved power and to have it.

Percieved power is detrimental when people feel they can manipulate and control other people's decisions and life. This factor is very harmful for the person and for others.

Power is detrimental when a person can actually have the power given by money or position to control others and harm them.

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Power is one of the most fearless weapons, it can damage people, and the ambitious it generates can make a person lose their mind.

It is necessary to have certain real power over one's own life so others won't take control of ones life. It is necessarry to perceived power in order to achieve things in life.