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 10
... scientist with no adequate means of explaining why people acknowledge the legitimacy of power at one time or place and not another . The social scientist , it seems , is someone who must always be taken by surprise when people stop ...
... scientist with no adequate means of explaining why people acknowledge the legitimacy of power at one time or place and not another . The social scientist , it seems , is someone who must always be taken by surprise when people stop ...
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... scientist , in concluding that a given power relationship is legitimate , is making a judgement , not delivering a report about people's belief in legitimacy . The Web- erian definition not only misconceives the nature of legitimacy ...
... scientist , in concluding that a given power relationship is legitimate , is making a judgement , not delivering a report about people's belief in legitimacy . The Web- erian definition not only misconceives the nature of legitimacy ...
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... scientist and the emancipatory purpose of alternative movements of the subordinate , not in the sense that the social scientist must share the particular ideals of the latter , but that their epistemological position is the same ? Do ...
... scientist and the emancipatory purpose of alternative movements of the subordinate , not in the sense that the social scientist must share the particular ideals of the latter , but that their epistemological position is the same ? Do ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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