Chapter 5: Power and Authority

Question 1

traditional authority

Answer 1

custom, lineage, culture
- royalty, divine right, dynasties

Question 2

charismatic authority

Answer 2

remarkable qualities of the leader
- religious leaders, political revolutionaries

Question 3

legal-rational authority

Answer 3

laws, rules, and regulations
- businesses, government policy, institutions

Question 4

rationalization

Answer 4

social life becoming organized around calculation, measurement and control

Question 5

bureaucracy

Answer 5

formal organization that uses rules and hierarchical ranking to achieve efficiency

Question 6

bureaucracy: formal organization

Answer 6

• division of labor
• hierarchy of authority
• rules and regulations
• technical operations
• impersonality