dominance
Let an agent describe a situation of dominance by parties, form of power, evidence and effects, telling legitimate authority from coercion, and point to safeguards where dominance is abusive.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Parties Who dominates whom.
Parties
Dominant and subordinate.
Parties
Parties, domain and period of the power relation, dependence and capacity to interfere.
- Who holds power over whom? provenance
- In which setting? definition
Basis
Source of power.
Power basis
Force, resources, status, rules.
- What gives one party power? definition
- Is it backed by institutions? boundary
Form How power is exercised.
Means
Means of control.
Means
Observed means.
- Which means of control are evidenced? provenance
- Are they coercive? boundary
Legitimacy
Authority or domination.
Legitimacy
Rules and consent.
- Is the power exercised under accepted rules? boundary
- Can the subordinate party exit or appeal? boundary
Effects Consequences.
Effects on people
Autonomy and wellbeing.
Effect
Observed effect.
- What effects on the subordinate party are evidenced? provenance
- How serious are they? measurement
Effects on markets or groups
Wider effects.
Wider effect
Competition or social effect.
- Does it harm competition or groups? boundary
- Which authority assessed it? provenance
Remedies Safeguards.
Legal remedies
Law and authorities.
Remedy
Law and body.
- Which law applies? provenance
- Which authority can act? provenance
Support
Help for affected people.
Support
Services.
- Which support services exist? action
- How can they be reached? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.state
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- transcendence, transcendency, superiority, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control, ascendant, ascendent, domination, mastery
What it is Filled
The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; ascendancy or control of one party over others, studied in social science as social dominance and in ethology as dominance hierarchies.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent describe a situation of dominance by parties, form of power, evidence and effects, telling legitimate authority from coercion, and point to safeguards where dominance is abusive.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A relation between people or groups, not a trait of one person; it can exist as dependence or capacity to interfere even when power is not exercised.
- Dominance, legitimacy and abuse are assessed separately: accepted rules can support authority without excluding abuse.
- Coercive dominance differs from prestige, influence based on recognised competence.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- coach anyone to dominate or control another person
- label a named person abusive without evidence
Only with a human decision
- cases of abuse, which go to support services or authorities
May
- describe and analyse power relations
- point to support services
Moral aspects Filled
- dignity and autonomy
- protection of vulnerable people
Who is affected
- subordinated people and groups
Owners Filled
Steward
nobody; a state of relations between parties
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-13943868-n - registry parent class
related
- power relation - social relation
- authority - legitimacy assessed separately
- prestige - influence without force
- dominance hierarchy in animals - a separate ethological sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.dominance
- Open English WordNet: oewn-14465291-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
A social relation has no physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Observed through behaviour, decisions and control of resources, not directly
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify the parties and form of power
- tell dominance from legitimate authority
- describe effects on subordinate parties
- point to safeguards and support where dominance is abusive
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Abuse of power and exploitation
- Coercive control in relationships
- Market abuse by dominant firms
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Competition law on abuse of a dominant market position, such as Article 102 TFEU (dominance itself is not unlawful)
- Laws against domestic abuse and coercive control, by jurisdiction
Context of use required Filled
- Describing and analysing relations of power between people and groups.
- interpersonal dominance
- group-based dominance (as in Social Dominance Theory)
- economic and market dominance
- political dominance
Sources Filled
- Domination - Social power, structural dependence, potential versus exercised power, and competing accounts of domination.
- Authority - Distinctions between power, de facto authority and legitimate authority; legitimacy and coercion.
- Article 102 Investigations - Market dominance, Article 102 TFEU and the distinction between dominance and its abuse.
- Controlling or coercive behaviour: statutory guidance framework - Coercive control as a pattern of domestic abuse and the jurisdiction-specific legal context.
Open questions
- The registry sense comes from a lexical source; should market dominance be a separate entry?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-dominance/spec.json