Power, Privilege and Oppression

a structure that organizes society

• voting

• power and privilege

• systems or institutions

• oppression

What is NOT an example of an institution in the U.S.?

• Legal System

• Healthcare

• Military

• Social Media

The ability to influence others is...

• influence

• power

• convincing

• oppression

Click ALL the boxes that are a form of power

• Social Norms

• Numbers

• State power

• Social Media

• Wealth

The ability to make others do what you want them to do is called

• Civic arena

• Democracy

• Power

• Dictatorship

One of the 6 sources of power is social norms. Choose the description that best describes that source

• What other people think is okay

• A vocal mass of people expressing a collective intensity of interest

• Buying results and power

• Using law and Bureaucracy to complete people to do or not do things

What strategies can you use to gain more power in public life?

• Indirection

• frontal attack

• coalition and charismatic authority

• All of the above

Using law and bureaucracy to compel people to do or not do certain things is called

• Physical force

• social norms

• civic arena

• state action

Opportunities given to a group of people who already hold power (dominant culture) is

• short cuts

• chances

• oppression

• privilege

oppression is the...

• suppression of a group/ holding a group back

• pushing a group of people up

• Letting people know they are in power

• Giving equal power to everyone