SOCL 1101 Quiz: Exam 3 study guide
5 Dec 2016
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Authority: the justifiable right to exercise power. Power: the ability to carry out one"s own will despite resistance. Domination: the likelihood that a command with specific context will be obeyed by a group of people. Traditional authority: authority based on appeals to past tradition: ex: family, religion, monarchy. Legal-rational authority: authority based on legal, impersonal rules, ex: government (non-monarchy) Charismatic authority (weber: authority that rests in the super-human appeal of an individual leadr, ex: martin luther king, jr. , bernie sanders, legal-rational authority hinders progress, most social movement leaders. State of nature (hobbes: life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, short without authority. When everyone buys into a power system, conformity persuades: citizens delegate their self-preservation to the government and government"s authority comes from citizen"s consent , natural rights (rousseau): property, liberty, autonomy. State: a human community that successfully clims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
