The Legitimation of PowerPolitical theory has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. A systematic study of legitimacy within social science, the book starts as a critique of Weber and examines the link betwen a social-scientific approach and the various philosophical traditions of theorizing about legitimacy. |
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Page 22
... common to all societies , however much its content will vary from one to the other . What explains this common structure ? As I shall show more fully later , it has its origin in the different ways in which power that is not legitimate ...
... common to all societies , however much its content will vary from one to the other . What explains this common structure ? As I shall show more fully later , it has its origin in the different ways in which power that is not legitimate ...
Page 46
... common purposes ( Parsons , 1960 , pp.219-25 ; Wrong , 1979 , pp.237-47 ) . - To emphasise one of these aspects to the exclusion of the other is erroneous , since they are interrelated . The manner in which a society's internal power ...
... common purposes ( Parsons , 1960 , pp.219-25 ; Wrong , 1979 , pp.237-47 ) . - To emphasise one of these aspects to the exclusion of the other is erroneous , since they are interrelated . The manner in which a society's internal power ...
Page 98
... common interest between dominant and subordinate is allowed by the principle of differentiation between them . Caste systems and serfdom constitute historical examples of orders that were legit- imate without being legitimated , since ...
... common interest between dominant and subordinate is allowed by the principle of differentiation between them . Caste systems and serfdom constitute historical examples of orders that were legit- imate without being legitimated , since ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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