SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Colonization Society, Charismatic Authority, Rationality
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Justification: time to change traditions, existing rules) Justification: impersonal rules, rational regulations, procedures not personalities. Legitimacy never complete; process not a product; ultimate back-up, force. Threat of force more effective than force/violence (here) We know that capitalists can compete with each other (bankers, industrialist having factories and capitalists engages agricultural have different interests) so the state for. Marx tries to balance those conflict of interests: weber: agrees with marx, but expands focus on the dynamics of the exercise of power/authority/violence/force by the state as a key factor with a dynamic of its own. So here"s an image of state power military paratroopers confronting completely unarmed totally peaceful students at a university in ohio and this was the turning point partly connected to all the images that are coming from vietnam. The intellectual legacy of max weber: 1. It the case of vietnam the whole point was to stop vietnam from becoming communist.
