SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Histology, Environmental Degradation, Fairy

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1340
• Professor: John Simoulidis

Document Summary

Legal: (cid:862)o(cid:271)edie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is o(cid:449)ed to the legall(cid:455) esta(cid:271)lished i(cid:373)pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al o(cid:396)de(cid:396). It e(cid:454)te(cid:374)ds to the persons exercising the authority of office under it only by virtue of the formal legality of their commands and only within the s(cid:272)ope of autho(cid:396)it(cid:455) of the offi(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:894)p. (cid:1007)(cid:1006)(cid:1012)(cid:895). Traditional: to the person, whose commands are bound by limits imposed by tradition. Characteristics of legal authority within bureaucracy (p. 330). Governed by legal norms, whether enacted by agreement or unilaterally imposed. Control and supervision is hierarchically organized graded authority accountability. Jurisdictional areas defined/organized by written rules not by unwritten rules flows from bottom up. Division of labour within the office: assigns functions to those occupying places within it. Authority inheres in the office, not in the person. Authority + official duties distributed in a stable impersonal way obedience due to the (cid:858)legal o(cid:396)de(cid:396)(cid:859) (cid:374)ot the offi(cid:272)ial.