 That is, conditions of social action and interaction are structured with the result that certain social relationships and institutional arrangements are established and maintained.In investigations of the exercise of meta-power, one is also interested in differences among actors in resources, skills, strategies, and so forth, but the main focus is on capacities to mobilize power resources to manipulate the matrix of rules or "the rules of the game," other conditions of interaction, and the distribution of resources as well as normative and ideological orientations.Meta-power entails the capacity to shape and set the limits of lower order power.