A humbling sense of disempowerment, a re-establishing
of hierarchical power arrangements, where the player realizes they are the bottom rung of the game's hierarchy.
In fact, a constitutional amendment was proposed to empower Congress to abolish the Catholic Church as a «
foreign hierarchical power... founded on principles or dogmas antagonistic to republican institutions.»
While these formulations of divine persuasive power and relational power are not without problems for some feminists, they do represent alternatives to coercive,
hierarchical power patterns and are suggestive of feminist reformulations of power in the context of mutuality.
-LSB-...] We can create a better, happier, more just existence for everyone by nurturing the common good and respecting our interdependence, instead of always focusing on moving up one rung in the
existing hierarchical power -LSB-...]
The IC - S was designed to measure participants» cultural orientation and originally included four dimensions of vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism but for the purposes of the present study only the two horizontal dimensions of individualism and collectivism were utilized which we conceptualized as more relevant to close interpersonal relationships than the vertical dimensions which is more concerned
with hierarchical power structures.