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Politics
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Power relations between people and or other social actors
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Authority
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The justifiable right to exercise power
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Charismatic authority
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Authority based on 'super natural' appeal of an individual leader - personal appeal - difficult to maintain or pass on
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Charisma
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Specific qualities that inspire loyalty and obedience in others
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Traditional authority
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Authority based on appeals to the past and or a long established way of doing things - not very flexible or adaptable
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Legal-rational authority
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A system of authority based on legal, impersonal rules; the rules rule - rules that have been routinized and rationalized.
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Routinization
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The clear, rule-govered procedures used over and over again for decision making
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Rationalization
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An ever-expanding process of ordering or organizing
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Bureaucracy
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A legal-rational organization or mode of administeration that governs with reference to rules and roles and emphasizes meritocracy
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Milgram experiment
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An experiment devised in 1961 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale, to see how far ordinary people would go in obeying a scientific authority figure
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Specialization
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The process of making work consist of specific, delimited tasks
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Taylorism
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The methods of labor management introduced by Fredrisk Taylor to streamline the processes of mass production in which each worker repeatedly performs 1 specific task
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Meritocracy
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A society where status and mobility are based on individual attributes, ability and achievement
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Power
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The ability to carry out ones own will despite resistance
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Domination
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The probability that a command with specific content will be obeyed by a given group of people
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