Max Weber recognized two forms of power. What are they? How do they differ from each other?

What will be an ideal response?


Weber recognized coercion, power that is wielded through force and its victims sees as illegitimate. Authority, on the other hand, is seen as legitimate by those who are subject to it.

Sociology

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According to Sanderson, the most tyrannical and despotic of all preindustrial societies are

a. simple horticulturalists b. pastoralists c. intensive horticulturalists d. hunter-gatherers e. agrarian societies

Sociology

Provide a comparison of older adults with other subordinate or minority social groups

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

The class intervals below represent ages of young adult respondents. Which set of intervals is both exhaustive and mutually exclusive?

a. 18-1919-2020-21 b. 18-19 20-2122-23 c. 18-20 22-2426-28 d. 18-1921-2224-25

Sociology

According to Edwards (2000), the behavior that 60% of a national sample of adult single women reported as the most serious fault of a man was his being _____

A) a womanizer B) an alcoholic C) too controlling D) hypersensitive

Sociology