UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE, SOCIETY AND

POLITICS feat POLITICS
and GOVERNMENT
RIZAFE A. TORRALBA-BACCAY
Activity: Jigsaw Puzzle
The class will be group into 6 and ask
to assign a reporter, secretary and a
timekeeper.
The activity is good for 3 minutes only.
Each group will be given a jigsaw
puzzle. The students will arrange it to
create an image.
Activity 2:
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P O W E R
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A U T H O R I T Y
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L E G I T I M A C Y
POWER,
AUTHORITY and
LEGITIMACY
Definition of Politics:
-is the social institution that
distributes power, sets a society’s
goals and make decision.

- the exercise of power and

attempts to maintain or to change
power relations.
What is the difference
between authority and
power?
Definition of Power:
Max Weber claimed that every society is
based on power.
-Power is the ability to achieve desired ends
despite resistance from others.
-Power is the ability to carry out one’s will,
even over the resistance of others.
-Power struggles- workers with their bosses,
power struggle within family members (all
these attempts to gain or keep power.
Power can be legitimate
as well as illegitimate but
Authority is always
legitimate.
Weber perceive power into two type
that is legitimate power and illegitimate
power.
Legitimate Power: is called as authority
i.e power that people accept as right.

Illegitimate power: known as coercion

i,.e power that people do not accept as
just.
Government is a formal
organization that directs the
political life of a society.

How do gov’t. try to make

itself seem legitimate in the
eyes of the people?
Through- “AUTHORITY”

Authority- power that people

perceive as legitimate rather
than coercive. This relations of
power authority is legitimate.
ACTIVITY 3:
ARRANGE THE JUMBLED
LETTERS

WRITE IT ON THE BOARD

 YUATROHIT
AATLIN
Traditional
Authority
ORTID
TNRIO
ALA-
Rational-Legal
Authority
GELL HSMTI
A ICCAA
Charismatic
Authority

R
 Types of Authority
Traditional
Rational-
Traditional Rational-Legal Charismatic
Authority
Authority Legal
Authority
Charismatic
Authority
Authority
Authority
 Traditional
Authority
Power legitimized by respect for long-
established cultural patterns.
Characteristics:
-strong power in political system,
absolute and almost godlike
-usually one of hereditary leadership
Ex. Monarchs, Brunei Sultanate
 Rational-Legal
Authority
As power legitimized by legally
enacted rules and regulations or
operation of lawful government.
Examples:
President, Principals, Classroom
Teachers, Police Officers, Security
Guards,
 Charismatic
Authority
Power legitimized by extraordinary personal
abilities that inspire devotion and obedience.
It depends less on a person’s ancestry or office and
more personality.
Characteristics:
-using their personal skills to turn an audience into
followers.
-make their own rules and challenge their status
quo.