SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georg Simmel, Moral Authority
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Influence: contractor didn"t issue command, i"m in a position to do good things for you if you do good things for me, contractor giving away contract. Issue an order: rightfulness of the command issues, when we consent or obey the command because of rightful position exercising authority, legitimacy and legitimation. Legitimation: royalty, process by which rightfulness is socially constructed, the function of authority. Without authority breakdown of social order weak are the first to be victimized. Ideal as a way to refer to concepts: sociologist who study facts know that its impossible to find these types in pure forms in reality. If inspector from city comes to inspect house, no going outside boundaries of their authority, explicit about which by-law to follow: following bureaucratic procedure. Incoherent empire michael mann: 2003 commplase of assad govt, no liberatin or democracy or jungle.
