SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Charismatic Authority, Traditional Authority, Social Distance
25 Jan 2017
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How do certain individuals and groups gain social status and/or political power. How do they maintain that status/power peacefully: key concepts. Status groups and social closure: power: a person"s ability to achieve his/her objective even if someone wants to try to prevent it. Requires force: authority: the capacity to get people to voluntarily do things. Doesn"t (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e fo(cid:396)ce if considered legitimate: types of legitimate domination. This is how it has always been done. If people view laws as legit, they follow them. If not, they revolt (example is civil rights movement: status groups: groups of people with similar kinds of attributes or identities (based on class, religion, ethnicity, or race, stratification system: inequalities between groups that persist over time. People want to identify with group that has a better social standing: social closure: ways that groups seek to close off access to opportunities by other groups.
