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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Patriarchy as a form of dominance.

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  • Systems of Kinship in India

The operative word is dominance, and it is technical. Max Weber defined Herrschaft as the probability a command will be obeyed because it is held legitimate, not merely because force backs it. Patriarchy, read this way, is gendered domination that secures obedience by being believed in — which is why it outlives the laws passed…

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  • Weber: patriarchalism as traditional domination
  • Why consent, and not merely compliance
  • Domination that also ranks men
  • The Indian specification
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