empowerment
Sign in to saveEmpowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights. Empowerment as action refers both to the process of self-empowerment and to professional support of people, which enables them to overcome their sense of powerlessness and lack of influence, and to recognize and use their resources.
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- Definitions
- Process
- Strategy
- Criticism
- In social work and community psychology
- In health promotion practice and research
- In economics
- Consumer empowerment
- Customer empowerment
- Increasingly engaged corporate directors
- Legal
- Gender
- In workplace management
- Evolution
- Implications for company culture
- Criticisms
- In artificial intelligence
- "Age of Popular Empowerment"
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights. Empowerment as action refers both to the process of self-empowerment and to professional support of people, which enables them to overcome their sense of powerlessness and lack of influence, and to recognize and use their resources.
As a term, empowerment originates from American community psychology and is associated with the social scientist Julian Rappaport (1981).