SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Charismatic Authority, Representative Democracy, Traditional Authority

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Power: ability to carry out your will in spite of resistance. Micropolitics: exercise of power in everyday life, routine situations. Macropolitics: exercise large-scale power over a large group. Authority: legitimate power power that we accept as right and just. Illegitimate power or coercion: power that we do not accept as morally correct. Authority and legitimate violence: state: synonymous with government, the government claims the exclusive righ tot use violence and the right ot punish anyone else who does, the collapse of authority. Revolution: armed resistance with the intention to overthrow a government not only a people"s rejection of a government"s claim to rule over them but also a rejection of its monopoly of violence. Traditional authority: based on custom + blood lines: however bc of industrialization, people are exposed to new experiences and this has changed a little bit. Rational-legal authority: based on written rules, rational means reasonable and.