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# Wareing (1999) Different types of power - Political - politicians, police - Personal - occupation / role - Social - class, gender, ethnicity, age - can be linked to muted group theory Different types of power use - Instrumental - maintain and enforce authority / gain complicity - Influential -...

# Wareing (1999) Different types of power - Political - politicians, police - Personal - occupation / role - Social - class, gender, ethnicity, age - can be linked to muted group theory Different types of power use - Instrumental - maintain and enforce authority / gain complicity - Influential - influence and persuade others to do something # Spender - man made language - Language is man made. in patriarchal societies, men control language and it works in their favor - Language is our way of ordering, classifying and manipulating in the world - Language constructs our reality - Disobedient women are labelled as abnormal, promiscuous, frigid or neurotic - Generic male (he/his to represent male and female) excludes women and they lose their identity. Dale Spender advocates a radical view of language as embodying structures that sustain male power. She refers to the work of Zimmerman and West, to the view of the male as norm and to her own idea of patriarchal order. She claims that it is especially difficult to challenge this power system, since the way that we think of the world is part of, and reinforces, this male power.