It can involve giving orders or engaging in ministrations. It can involve cooperation, which means those who are influenced or controlled do what is desired without opposing it, although various carrots and sticks may be behind this relation. It can involve outright opposition, in which case some kind of obvious contest of wills goes on involving not only opposition, but perhaps harm or threats of harm, or promises. It can also involve partial cooperation and partial opposition, in which the opposition may or may not be concealed. It can involve simulated cooperation, combined with actual opposition.
Most relations involve partial cooperation and partial opposition.
Similarly, position can also be defined this way. After all, it is people in positions of power, whatever that power may be, who have the ability to get things done. In society, this kind of power consists of the ability to move people toward certain ends, and command resources, to get things done. Power is the power over other people. In this sense, power, like image, is a position in a social network, so power and position bear a close relation.