SOCL 3101 Chapter : 3101 PART 3
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Discouraged by politics and the self-serving nature of it. The iron law of oligarchy description of how power tends to be delegated in the hands of a few. When someone is designated as a leader they associate with other leaders of similar groups, whatever connection they had originally they lose (leads to goal displacement) Goal displacement the goals of the leaders changes from helping the group to staying in power, which inevitably leads to corruption. Leaders have more power than those lower ranks. The official leaders have an official claim to legitimacy, more access to material resources of the group, and they can use these things to impose their ideology on the group as well as to increase their own power. If anybody in the group tries to oppose the leaders they will be labeled as parading the enemy, fascists: karl mannheim (1893-1947)
