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Domination Authority Law
If a social entity (a person, Legitimacy refers to the degree A law is an explicitly codified
institution or group) is of acceptance that is involved norm or rule. It is usually in
routinely or habitually in a in power relations. Legitimate written form comprising of
position of power, it is said to is accepted as proper, just and formal rules by which society is
be dominant. Dominant group fitting. Authority is defined by governed and it is applicable to
has decisive influence on max Weber as legitimate all citizens. There are laws that
society. It is quite similar to power i.e power considered to specify how laws are to be
forced cooperation as people be justified or proper. It’s form made or changed, or what is to
do things that they don’t want of power that is associated be done if someone violates
but without creating conflict. with the official position. them. Law is a product of
conscious thought, deliberate
attempts and careful planning.
Violence
Crime
Contestation
It is the enemy of social order
It is an act that violates an
It is used here as a simply a and an extreme form of
existing law, nothing more or
word for broad forms of contestation that transgresses
nothing less. Crime is the
insistent disagreement. not only the law, but
breaking of the law- going
Contestations also include important social norms.
beyond the boundary of
dissent or protest against laws Violence in society is the
legitimate dissent as defined
or lawful authorities. product of social tensions and
by the law. indicates the presence of
serious problems.
