SOCIOL 1A06 Study Guide - Party System, Tactical Voting, Hard Power
16 Apr 2013
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Politics is the power relations among people or other social actors. Authority is the justifiable right to exercise power. Charismatic authority is authority that rests in the superhuman appeal of an individual leader (barack obama) Traditional authority is authority based on appeals to past tradition. Legal-rational authority is a system of authority based on legal, impersonal rules ; the rules rule. Routinization is the clear; rule-governed procedures used repeatedly for decision making. Rationalization is an ever expanding process of ordering or organizing. Bureaucracy is a legal-rational organization or mode of administration that governs with reference to rules and roles and which emphasizes meritocracy. Specialization is the process of making work consist of specific, delimited tasks. Taylorism are the methods of labour management introduced by frederick winslow. Taylor to streamline the processes of mass production in which each worker repeatedly performs one specific task. Meritocracy is a society that bases status and mobility on individual attributes, ability and achievement.
