• Legitimation, legitimization (US), or legitimisation (UK) is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process...
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    social scientists when claiming that a legitimation crisis exists, a predominant way of measuring a legitimation crisis is to consider public attitudes...
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    Legitimation of nobility is the process of verifying nobility before the heraldry office to officially confirm nobility. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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  • functions, institutions, or leadership: a legitimation crisis. The direct translation of its German title is Legitimation Problems in Late Capitalism. In this...
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  • The Legitimation of Power by David Beetham is a book on political theory. The book examines the legitimation of power as an essential issue for social...
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    The Legitimation League was an English advocacy organisation in the 1890s, which campaigned for the legitimation of illegitimate children and free love...
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    territory. Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation. Max Weber wrote in Politics as a Vocation that a fundamental characteristic...
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    A legitimate military target is an object, structure, individual, or entity that is considered to be a valid target for attack by belligerent forces according...
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  • performances of such theatre were termed legitimate drama, while the abbreviation the legitimate refers to legitimate theatre or drama and legit is a noun...
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  • would be legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents, provided they had been free to marry at the date of the conception. The Legitimation (Scotland)...
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  • Legitimacy (redirect from Legitimate)
    (disambiguation) Legitimate (professional wrestling) Legitimate expectation Legitimate peripheral participation Legitimate theater Legitimation Legitime Legitimists...
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  • A legitimating ideology, a term used by sociologists C. Wright Mills and others, refers generally to any ideology which is used to legitimate the actions...
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    object of legitimation (answering what is legitimate), and positive political legitimacy (PPL), which is about the source of legitimation (answering...
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  • personal and economic habits set against their particular demographic. Legitimate surveys are usually unpaid (as with a Gallup poll) or incentivized. Surveys...
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    The doctrine of legitimate expectation was first developed in English law as a ground of judicial review in administrative law to protect a procedural...
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    Homologous recombination is a type of genetic recombination in which genetic information is exchanged between two similar or identical molecules of double-stranded...
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  • Legitimate use of force may refer to: the right of a state to exercise legitimate authority or violence over a given territory; see monopoly on the legitimate...
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    aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Victoria, a constitutional monarch, attempted privately to influence...
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    manner analogous to a military force, but does not have professional or legitimate status. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary"...
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  • field of history. Her book is Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960, which details the historical politics...
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    Sainteté et monarchie en Espagne après le concile de Trente", Dévotion et légitimation, Presses universitaires de Liège, pp. 41–56, doi:10.4000/books.pulg.8977...
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  • Legitimate Beef is the second album by Spongehead, released in 1990 through Community 3 Records. Adapted from the Legitimate Beef liner notes. Robbins...
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    legitimised by a private act of Parliament. In 1546, this act of Parliament, Legitimation of Sir Ralph Sadler's Children Act 1545 (37 Hen. 8. c. 30 Pr.) was passed...
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    dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons. These may include isolating them from enemy...
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  • sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) distinguished three ideal types of legitimate political leadership/domination/authority (German: Herrschaft, lit. 'mastership')...
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  • Legitimate defense of honor (Portuguese: legítima defesa da honra) is a legal term in Brazilian jurisprudence, used by the defense to justify the defendant's...
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  • rights advocate and politician Natan Sharansky in order to distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism. The "three Ds" stand for delegitimization...
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  • the King of the Zulu Nation, his consorts, and all of his legitimate descendants. The legitimate descendants of all previous kings are also sometimes considered...
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    the first since 1709. As his two elder brothers died without leaving legitimate issue, William inherited the throne when he was 64 years old. His reign...
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  • in a certain way, then the power is considered "legitimate authority". Max Weber broke down legitimate authority into three different types of societies:...
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