Assertion: authority | /r/HasProperty | legitimate
Facets:
value: in sociology
type: OTHER
value: within the boundaries of the community
type: LOCATION
value: acts in accord with principles
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: It discusses the theory advanced by John Rawls that authority is legitimate if and only if it acts in accord with principles the subjects agree to.
text: Authority is the legitimate power which one person or group possesses and practices over another.
text: Any authority not based on the free (that is, uncoerced) agreement of individuals and a community of individuals is illegitimate--where such authority is instituted, you will find that force is not far behind.
text: The term authority identifies political legitimacy, which grants and justifies the right to exercise power of government; and the term power identifies the ability to accomplish an authorized goal, by way either of compliance or of obedience; hence, authority is the power to make decisions and the legitimacy to make such legal decisions and order their execution.
text: Authority is basically the right to do something where as power is the ability to do it or get it done, it can be said that authority is a form of legitimate power
text: An authority does its job well and is therefore legitimate when it enables subjects to act better on the reasons that apply to them when they take the commands as giving them preemptive reasons.
text: An instrumentalist attempts to meet Wolff's challenge by saying that an authority is legitimate when one complies better with one's duty overall by submission to authority than by trying to act on the basis of one's own assessments of what is right and wrong in each instance.
text: The instrumentalist approach seems to be committed to the idea that an authority can be legitimate even if most of the members of the society do not agree with what it is doing.
text: Authority is legitimate only within the boundaries of the community (subject or otherwise) in which it is based.
text: In sociology, authority is the legitimate power which one person or a group possesses and practices over another.