Power = authority to legitimise & define collective knowledge/meanings

‘Social’ power can be understood as the authority to include and exclude, and therefore legitimise and define, the collective knowledge and collective meanings that constitute actors’ identities, interests and practices and shape social reality

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Power = authority to legitimise & define collective knowledge/meanings
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