Answer to Question #301522 in Sociology for NeedHelp

Question

List 6 positive and 6 negative effects of power.

Answer 1

POSITIVE EFFECTS OF POWERS

1.      Gives a sense of responsibility to an individual to listen and cater to the people fairly.

2.      Power can enable one to discover a talented person and someone’s ability to perform a task and assist them in every way to reach their dreams.

3.      Power enables an individual to organize others to reach a challenging goal, for example, a CEO of an organization can align an entire organization to move together creating unity in the work.

4.      Power can help change the lives of many people in a country, by improving on infrastructure like constructions of schools, hospitals to help individuals in the society

5.      Power enables individuals to gain respect and influence in the eyes of others.

6.      Power enables the creation of awareness to educate society to change their views towards a goal for a better outcome that will benefit all.

NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF POWERS

1.      Power makes a person be a dictator, who abuses the power bestowed upon him.

2.      Over the years it has been proven that power can be toxic and tragic to people when abused.

3.      power can lead to conformity where unprincipled behaviors are practiced affecting society.

4.      Power leads to corruption and nepotism where people are given positions to govern the state without proper qualifications.

5.      Power makes a person uninterested in the needs of the oppressed and can also influence the emotions of people negatively.

6.      Individuals with power take actions that only benefit them and act of their own will affect the people in the society.