Exam 15: Authority and the State

Your deference to your parents,professors,and the laws of the U.S.government is best seen as an example of domination by:

________ authority is based on standard,regular procedures,and is the type of authority supposedly most pervasive in modern society.

According to Hobbes,to achieve peace and avoid death,humans enter into a ________ and submit to an overarching sovereign authority charged with ensuring peace for everyone.

In the grocery store one day,you spy a mother and her two unruly children.She consistently threatens that she is going to spank them when she gets them home.They ignore her threats.Finally,she swats one of them on the butt,making the other child laugh,suggesting that she has lost control of the situation.This could be seen as:

________ groups gain power by trying to persuade elected officials to advocate their agendas.

In a legal-rational society,personality and tradition are less important than:

Legal-rational authority is pervasive in modern society today.This is probably because it:

After the period of rapid industrialization that began in the late eighteenth century and culminated at the beginning of the twentieth century,many states began adopting various policies developed to meet social needs.This is referred to as:

In general,rulers prove their authority by: