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This 4 page paper defines authority according to Max Weber and also explores Marxism. Weber's views are compared and contrasted with that of Karl Marx. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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speeding tickets and are generally good Samaritans. However, when contemplating authority and power, do leaders possess legitimate authority every step of the way, or are they really not legitimate leaders?
Should people obey the law or is anarchy or protest par for the course in developing a world of equity? Some people do in fact question the legitimacy of power.
Interestingly, the election of 2000 in America created quite a stir as some still say that George W. Bush is not the legitimate president as the votes were unfairly tallied.
Is that a legitimate gripe? And, even if he is accepted as the leader of the United States, is it not in the best interests of the people to rise
up in protest--much like Karl Marx once suggested--in order to make things right? After all, a significant disparity between the haves and "have nots" is perpetuated by the current system
of government. So what is legitimate authority anyway? Max Weber considered three general ways of suggesting that authority was legitimate (Coser, 1977). Authority is of course something that has
a rationality and is set in "impersonal rules" which are well established (1977). One may consider this type to be rational-legal authority but traditional authority is something that was existent
in the pre-modern era (1977). That sort of authority is welded in the belief that tradition is sound (1977). The third type of authority is charismatic authority (1977). Charismatic
authority is quite a different story and somewhat of an enigma. By virtue of attractive personality characteristics, a man or woman acquires authority because the people believe in his
or her extraordinary capabilities as a leader. Thus, in order to rule, someone with charismatic authority need not be elected or born into a position. They simply need to win
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