Abstract
In everyday understanding of Power, it is conceptualized as a real existence which exercises influences on the social world, and assumed as an independent factor. Power understood as such is one of the key concepts through which people in everyday life understand the world surrounding them.
However the very existence of such Power is questionable. Unlike physical force which is a real existence, Social Power cannot be a uni-dimensional explanatory variable. It is important to distinguish Power and power phenomena. The latters are unquestionably observable and observed by any person, though the range of the phenomena which should be classified as power might be different among scholars. Power as a factor, on the contrary, is rather a supposed and assumed one which is nonexistent in reality but is assumed erroneously in understanding social phenomena in everyday life.
Hence any theory of social power should exclude the Power as an explanatory variable. Instead, it should explain a power phenomenon as a complex outcome by various social mechanisms.
