F Flashcards
POLITICS
power relations among people or other social actors.
AUTHORITY
the justifiable right to exercise power.
CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY
Example
authority that rests on the personal appeal of an individual leader.
Ex. celebrities and social media stars
TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY
Example
authority that rests on or appeals to the past or traditions.
Ex. a monarchy (king)
LEGAL-RATIONAL AUTHORITY
Example
authority based on legal, impersonal rules; the rules rule.
Ex. democracies, officials elected by voters
ROUTINIZATION
the clear, rule-governed procedures used repeatedly for decision making.
RATIONALIZED
a never-ending process of ordering or organizing.
BUREAUCRACY
a legal-rational organization or mode of administration that governs with reference to formal rules and roles and emphasizes meritocracy.
SPECIALIZATION
the process of breaking up work into specific, delimited tasks.
TAYLORISM
the methods of labor management, introduced by Frederick Winslow Taylor to streamline the processes of mass production, in which each worker repeatedly performs one specific task.
MERITOCRACY
a society where status and mobility are based on individual attributes, ability, and achievement.
MILGRAM EXPERIMENT
an experiment devised in 1961 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, to see how far ordinary people would go to obey an authority figure. (shock test, people will follow authority)
DOMINATION
the probability that a command with specific content will be obeyed by a given group of people
POWER
the ability to carry out one’s own will despite resistance.
STATE
as defined by Max Weber, “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”
