Condições essenciais de manifestação do poder: imbricações das micro e macro relações

Abstract

This paper aims to position itself against the various conceptual perspectives on the understanding of power in studies of social sciences and humanities. Theoretically, the concept of power has become so broad that can be used both to describe social phenomena related to the action of social actors or social practice of man, the physical phenomena. Even taking only the first name, various approaches are discussed from different perspectives and the concept of power becomes difficult to understand. In roughly one can say that a big question arises for beginners in the study of power. It's a power relationship or interpersonal practice it is determined by the macro structural relations in society? This question has long been done differently, trying to explain why and by whom power is exercised. If agents or by individual or collective structures and systems. Thus, the current text position is being structured methodologically from some definitions of power and highlighting some points of different schools of thought, to show, first, the relational power as an action between individuals and the other as latent social capacity and institutional relations of groups and social structures.