Legitimation is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process whereby an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate by its attachment to norms and values within in given society. The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies An ideology is a set of beliefs aims and Ideas especially in politics Social norms have been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values beliefs attitudes and behaviors A personal and cultural value is a Relative ethic value, an assumption upon which implementation can be extrapolated A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions It is the process of making something acceptable and normative to a group or audience. Brooklyn Book Festival crowd by David Shankbonejpg|thumb|An audience at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City.
Legitimate power is the ability to influence through authority, the right by virtue of one's organization position or status to exercise control over persons in subordinate position. In Politics, authority ( Latin Auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to Potestas and Imperium
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Power and influence
For example, the legitimation of power can be understood using Max Weber's traditional bases of power. Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (maks 'veːbɐ (21 April 1864 &ndash 14 June 1920 was a German political economist and sociologist who was considered In a bureaucracy, people gain legitimate use of power by their positions which legitimate their use of power. Bureaucracy is the structure and set of regulations in place to control activity usually in large organizations and government As a man, George Bush (or any other president) has no legitimate right to wield power. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. As a president, his use of power is fully legitimated by the position he occupies in the bureaucracy. Therefore, even though the same individual is wielding power (and could at least hypothetically be doing so at a personal level), the position legitimates the man's use of power in the scope of his office.
In another example, if an individual attempts to convince others that something is "right", they can invoke generally accepted arguments that support their agenda. Interest groups must legitimate their courses of action based on invoking specific social norms and values. An interest group (also advocacy group, lobby group, pressure group or special interest group) is an organized collection of people who seek Social norms have been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values beliefs attitudes and behaviors Invoking these norms and values allows the group to proceed in a rational and coherent manner with the expectation that their subsequent behavior is legitimated by the norms and values which guide their organizations.
Family Law
Legitimation can also be used as a legal term where a father of a child born out of wedlock becomes the child's legal father. Prior to legitimation, the child is said to be illegitimate. Once a child has been legitimated, he or she is entitled to all of the benefits from that father as he or she would if that man had been married to the child's mother at the time of the child's birth. The father is responsible for providing support to the child and the child is entitled to inherit from the father.
Canon Law
Legitimation is a term in Roman Catholic canon law to remove the canonical irregularity of illegitamacy for candidates for the priesthood. Canon law is internal ecclesiastical law governing the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches and the Anglican Communion of churches In the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, a canonical impediment is a legal obstacle that prevents a sacrament from being performed validly and/or licitly In Common law, legitimacy is the status of a Child that is born to parents who are legally married to one another or that is born shortly after the [1]
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"Legitimation". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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