Voorbeelden van disempower

• This is because innovation in techniques of discipline (for example, control of labour) and production will empower some agents and disempower others.

• A social drama that enhances the power of one group may at the same time disempower others; while it gratifies some, it terrorizes others.

• In many cases the researchers will then need to ask how the categories chosen bias the research, and empower or disempower the groups involved.

• Deliberative arrangements potentially undermine clientelism but also disempower representative institutions.

• Thus, we have a responsibility toward vulnerable patients to ensure that we do not disempower them through our own negativities.

• The self-development strategy can as easily disempower as empower.

• Nevertheless, the boundaries within can be used for anti-democratic ends, can be used to exclude women, the young, or landless people from the franchise, to disempower the inconvenient.

• The authors explore the multiple dimensions of disempowerment and empowerment and show how ideology, policy and practice all serve to disempower people with severe mental distress.