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Assignment:

Reflect on and analyze the use of power in the references meeting.

1. Who is represented at this event (what interest groups)? Who is leading the event? What else do you notice about the group dynamics?
2. Who stands to benefit or be harmed by what has happened or what is being proposed?
3. What is the meeting intended to achieve? In your opinion, was it achieved? Why or why not?
4. Using French and Raven's (1992) six bases of power, describe the different kinds of power that each group or person seems to hold (i.e., reference, expert, reward, coercive, informational, and/or legitimacy).
5. How are they using their power?
6. Do you think power should have been used differently? If power had been used differently, how might it have affected the outcome of the meeting?
7. What role might a community social worker play in an event like this (before, during and after)?

Reference

Brown, M.-E., & Stalker, K. (2022). Chapter 5: Using Dialogue, Traditional and Digital Storytelling, and Structural Group Work Techniques to Identify Community Issues. In Social Work Skills for Community Practice: Applied Macro Social Work (2nd Edition, pp. 93-112b). essay, Springer Publishing Company.

Raven, B. H. (1992). A power/interaction model of interpersonal influence: French and Raven thirty years later. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 7(2), 217-244.