cue column Note taking

 Social control The system of rules and procedures organized to

regulate society

 Types of political organizations  stateless societies – lack government and

social classification
 state societies - have a central government

 Classification of societies
bands – considered to be the smallest and
most primitive
- haunting and gathering is the typical
way of life in bands
tribes – do not have political structure

 Authority
certain political entity has the right to use and
exercise its power over a specific group or society

- Charismatic authority
-more dependent on personality than
status
- make personal appeals or request to
- Legal-rational authority others
- more industrialized, modern societies
where power rests upon a particular office and not
upon a specific person

 Power
form of control that coerce a person to obey
another

- Legitimacy
Is the belief that a certain entity has a right to rule
or to be in authority
Summary :

establishing legitimacy is equally important to exercising authority. A socially-organized society should be

able to adjust itself with the law and to accept the validity of the authority figure. As such, command and
obedience relationship could be seen as important factors in attaining legitimacy.