Power Packet In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Say you're trying to get a job and you are perfectly qualified for it but you're then told you can't have the job just because you aren’t a certain height or because you talk loudly. This is called discrimination and it shows that society values some traits, personalities or abilities more than others, i.e., being able to work fast, being smart, or good at math and science, good looks, etc. This was portrayed in the book of Mice and Men through Steinbeck's message that everybody can be useful in different ways even if it seems that only a certain, set outline of a person is the one that's most accepted or thought to be right and perfect. Everyone felt the need to please society but unfortunately some things like race were things you are not …show more content…

They could say that it is necessary for society to be this way because if everyone were valued the same then it would be bad. Because then nobody would try harder to reach something better than their current state. In the Bases of Power Packet, it talks about how power is distributed differently amongst different people with different skill sets and ideas relative to how different people have different amounts of power and respect based off of who they are and what they do. One idea shown in this packet is, “within organizations, a person's social network can either isolate them from information power or serve to create it”. This just goes to show how you're standing on the social ladder can either get you more or less power.. if y you have a lot of friends and you’re well liked among your peers then obviously you’re closer to what society wants, therefore giving you more power. Everything ends up going in a loop connecting one another. Another example is Referent power, it stated, “...stems from the personal characteristics of the person such as the degree to which we like, respect, and want to be with them”2.this is the type of power most people would want to acquire because then you would have more respect from people and better liked. But for someone who may disagree could argue Not everyone is treated the same. People shouldn't be valued more than others who just as qualified simply because of an unrelated trait.. Everyone is the way they are for a reason and can all be useful. Society makes people feel like there is only one right and everything else is wrong but it is necessary for people to be different in this

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