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Weber on legitimate norms and authority.

Martin E. Spencer
- 01 Jun 1970 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 123-134
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This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-06-01. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Authority & Tripartite classification of authority.

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Legitimating Identities: The Self-Presentations of Rulers and Subjects

TL;DR: Rodney Barker argues that at least as much time is spent by rulers legitimating themselves in their own eyes, and cultivating their own sense of identity, as is spent in trying to convince ordinary subjects as discussed by the authors.
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The role of affect in creative projects and exploratory search

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a more robust theory would give affect greater prominence in creativity and exploratory search, and identify some weaknesses in the Carnegie account, and go back to the work of John Dewey to build a stronger foundation for a more complete understanding of these phenomena.
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Legitimacy in a global order

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of legitimacy in a global order, not legitimacy of the global order is presented, and the authors explore the challenging issue of what legitimacy might mean within such a context, and on what basis that order could develop its own principles of legitimacy.
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Achieving Authority: Discursive Practices in Russian Girls' Pretend Play

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how Russian girls deploy bodily orientation combined with linguistic actions to display their subordination to the authority of dominant peers in non-conflictual environments, based on the micro-analysis of video-recorded, self-organized play and talk activities in a friendship group of girls, ages 6 to 9 years.
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Legitimacy and Mass Compliance: Reflections on Max Weber and Soviet-Type Societies

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the concept of legitimacy is not appropriate for the analysis of mass compliance in such societies, and that the persistence of stable social and political order in these societies, as well as the occurrences of mass dissent, may be better accounted for in terms of "conditional tolerance".
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