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Max Weber: “The Types of Legitimate Domination”

This article explores Max Weber's theories on the types of legitimate domination, including legal authority, traditional authority, and charismatic authority. It discusses the basis of legitimacy and the relationship between authority and obedience. The article also touches on the topics of social classes, status groups, and political parties.

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Max Weber: “The Types of Legitimate Domination”

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  1. Max Weber: “The Types of Legitimate Domination” Dan Ryan – Fall 2010

  2. Domination = probability command(s) will be obeyed. Subtype of power and influence. Wide variation in basis. Always a measure of “voluntary compliance” • D of groups takes staff. Staff obey from custom, affect, pay, or ideals & this determines type of domination. But legitimacy also needed. • D rarely relies on custom, affect, or pay alone. Everything about social organization of D seems to depend on basis of legitimacy claim.

  3. Legitimacy • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_%28political%29

  4. Legitimacy is a reasonable basis for classifying types of domination. • Authority relationship is a broad category. • Mere “power over” not same as authority. A involves command and obedience. But there are gradations in real world. • People obey for different “real” reasons. What’s important is how basis for validity of authority is related to “means of its exercise.”

  5. Even in regime with no legitimacy vis a vis subjects, authority relation between leader and staff will be classifiable. • Obedience = action follows content of command without regard to actor’s own stance. • Subjective process in actor not relevant here.

  6. Effects of domination as social phenomenon extend throughout society. • Ideology of “leader as servant” does not change this analysis. • Three types of basis for legitimate authority: rational; traditional; charismatic. • Rational = legal authority based on rules.

  7. Traditional = based on belief in sanctity of “the way it’s always been done.” • Charismatic = based on exceptional character of an individual • Variations across types in person obeyed and what determines range of things covered.

  8. Influence Power Authority

  9. Economy and Society • Part One: Conceptual ExpositionI. Basic Sociological TermsII. Sociological Categories of Economic ActionIII. The Types of Legitimate Domination 212IV. Status Groups and Classes 302Part Two: The Economy and the Arena of Normative and De Facto PowersI. The Economy and Social NormsII. The Economic Relationships of Organized GroupsIII. Household, Neighborhood and Kin GroupIV. Household, Enterprise and OikosV. Ethnic GroupsVI. Religious Groups (The Sociology of Religion)VII. The Market: Its Impersonality and Ethic (Fragment)Volume 2VII. Economy and Law (The Sociology of Law)IX. Political CommunitiesX. Domination and LegitimacyXI. BureaucracyXII. Patriarchalism and PatrimonialismXIII. Feudalism, Ständestaat and PatrimonialismXIV. Charisma and Its TransformationXV. Political and Hierocratic DominationXVI. The City (Non-Legitimate Domination)

  10. THE TYPES OF LEGITIMATE DOMINATION • THE BASIS OF LEGITIMACY Domination and Legitimacy The Three Pure Types of Authority • LEGAL AUTHORITY WITH A BUREAUCRACATIC ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Legal Authority, The Pure Type Monocratic Bureaucracy • Traditional Authority • CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY • The Routinization of Charisma • FEUDALISM • Transformation of Charisma in a Democratic Direction • COLLEGIALITY AND THE DIVISION OF POWERS • PARTIES • DIRECT DEMOCRACT and REPRESENTATIVE ADMINISTATION • REPRESENTATION

  11. Class, Status, and Party • Economically Determined Power and the Status • Order (119.3) • Determination of Class Situation by the Market • Situation (119.9) • Social Action Flowing From Class Interest (121.2) • Types of Class Struggle (122.1) • Status Honor (123) • Ethnic Segregation and Class (124.8) • Status Privileges (126.2) • Economic Conditions and Effects of Status Stratification (126.9) • Parties (128.4)

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