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Power stemming from a position in some organization can be traced back thousands of years, such as ancient Egyptian pharaohs, emperors of Rome, and Native American tribe leaders. However, the structural aspect of power has a much more recent history. “A careful review of sociological constructs of power reveals a striking similarity between classical and contemporary conceptions. Marx 's analysis of the capitalist labor market and Weber 's analysis of modern bureaucracies offer valuable clues to the important insight that power can be a structurally determined potential for unequal resource distributions that favors some actors at the expense of others” (Corra). Marx states that structural power resulted from the exploitative relations in material production, resulting from the ownership relations of the means of production, and guess who, historically, especially in the United States owned the means of production? You guessed right, wealthy, white,