Does power or authority make order? Thomas Hobbes‚ in writing the Leviathan‚ proposes an answer to the question. However‚ there must first be a definition of the terms power‚ authority‚ and order. Hobbes classifies power in two categories: natural powers‚ which are basic powers of the body and mind such as physical strength and prudence‚ and instrumental powers‚ which are powers that are means and instruments to acquire more powers such as riches‚ reputation‚ and friends. These powers‚ together‚
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As we grow up older‚ we usually discover that there is someone who we exceptionally like his\her quality. Some people may like movie stars‚ world leaders‚ writers‚ poets or even singers. The person who I admire her qualities is not a world superstar it is my sister. She has three wonderful qualities such as sacrifice‚ helpfulness and an endless ambition. The first quality is her sacrifice. I like her sacrifice because what she done for me in my life. An example of this is that she had devoted
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people have easily impressionable personalities that only need a leader with wrong intentions to get them on the wrong path. A lack of authority and order can lead people to express the natural evilness that lies inside all of us. One example that proves this is our society. Within our society we have various sets of rules and a variation of people of authority. These rules enforce the benevolence of our society by threatening wrongdoers with consequence and the rejection of others in the community
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Ronald Heifetz in ‘Leadership without easy answers’ explains authority in the following manner. “Authority is the conferred power to perform a service. It is given and can be taken away. It is part of an exchange. Authority relationships are to a certain extent conscious and voluntary. Unlike dominance relationships that are based on coercion or deference. Authority provides direction‚ protection and order. Authority is a must in each social organization. It can be observed in human team work‚ at
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Ethnographic Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Mead‚ Turner and Geertz Paula J. Suter Anthropological Thought and Praxis I - Dr. Christina Wasson Midterm - October 14‚ 2013 Introduction Ethnographic authority is a useful concept. Examining the structure and authority of ethnographic theory and practice helps one to gaze‚ with a critical eye‚ upon the field of knowledge that is being handed down. Before assimilating new knowledge‚ it is important to question the premises
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OF AUTHORITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. ABSTRACT The primary of delegation of authority is to make organization possible just as one person in an enterprise can do all the task necessary as an enterprise grows for the manager to exercise all the authority for making decisions. This is so because there is a limit to the number of persons Managers can effectively supervise and for whom they can make decisions. Once this limit is exceeded authority has
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Rape by Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s blatant poem‚ Rape‚ speaks a strong theme of a distrust of male authority. She establishes a male audience in the first stanza (the phrase "brothers" indicates male bonds)‚ in order to show them what one of their brethren a cop‚ a figure of authority perverted to one of death ("machinery to kill you") has a sexist attitude‚ not in despite of his morals‚ but because of them. Rich’s portrait of the cop is one that shifts from a physical
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The theme of authority is possibly the most important theme and the most popular theme concerning William Blake’s poetry. Blake explores authority in a variety of different ways particularly through religion‚ education and God. Blake was profoundly concerned with the concept of social justice. He was also profoundly a religious man. His dissenting background led him to view the power structures and legalism that surrounded religious establishments with distrust. He saw these as unwarranted controls
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Social Psychology Phenomena: Obedience to Authority Obedience is a social psychology phenomenon where people willingly do something to obey a certain figure of authority that instructed them to do something that conflicted with their moral sense. People obey those authority figures because they believe that they have lesser intellectual‚ power‚ experience or position than that figure. Obedience comes in many different forms‚ for example obedience to law‚ obedience to god‚ obedience to social norms
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government established the Tennessee Valley Authority with the purpose to address the crisis. With the Tennessee Valley Authority‚ the government nationalized land across six southern states. There was also federal ownership of hydroelectric dams‚ and this led to the government entering the power business as a competitor. Finally‚ the government launched propaganda campaigns across the region in order to gain local support. The Tennessee Valley Authority was a very socialist act‚ and embodied the
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