SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: W. E. B. Du Bois, Charismatic Authority, Group Conflict
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He wants to understand why people respect hierarchy and obey order. Obedience related to legitimacy rather than threat of force. Charismatic authority: can speak to and appeal to the greater good. Legal-rational authority: rules - bureaucracy, pillars of modern life. People with similar kinds of attributes or identities such as those based on religion, ethnicity, or race, sexual orientation, gender, disability. Struggles - an important aspect of society"s stratification system (not economic class) Various ways that groups seek to close off access to opportunities by other groups. (system of apartheid in sa, or the boys club in corporate world. ) Inequalities found between groups that persist over time (religious, racial, ethnic) Status group conflicts that enable a group to gain advantage over other groups. Living multiple lives, one as a black person and one as an american - and through the eyes of white americans, they suffered from how they were devalued.
