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 49
... practice to acquire the skills necessary to their perform- ance . As with the ownership of key resources , the degree of power is determined by the extent of the exclusion , and by the importance of the activity to the excluded . It is ...
... practice to acquire the skills necessary to their perform- ance . As with the ownership of key resources , the degree of power is determined by the extent of the exclusion , and by the importance of the activity to the excluded . It is ...
Page 81
... practice , wholly to break out of the self - fulfilling cycle of legitimation , characteristic of ascriptive societies , whereby natural - seeming qualities are soci- ally created . Such a restriction of the meritocratic principle in ...
... practice , wholly to break out of the self - fulfilling cycle of legitimation , characteristic of ascriptive societies , whereby natural - seeming qualities are soci- ally created . Such a restriction of the meritocratic principle in ...
Page 113
... practice by the social advantages transmitted through the institution of the family , it postulates the ideal that people's qualities , attributes , capacities and opportunities should precisely not be defined or limited in advance ...
... practice by the social advantages transmitted through the institution of the family , it postulates the ideal that people's qualities , attributes , capacities and opportunities should precisely not be defined or limited in advance ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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