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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Legitimacy.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Politics and Society

Legitimacy is the rightfulness of a social or political order as recognised by those subject to it. It turns power into authority, so that people comply out of a sense of obligation rather than fear. Max Weber made it central to political sociology: every system of domination tries to establish and cultivate a belief in…

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  • Two ways of understanding legitimacy
  • Why legitimacy matters
  • Legitimation and its crises
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