Process by which something becomes accepted within a society
Legitimation, legitimization (US), or legitimisation (UK) 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 a given society. It is the process of making something acceptable and normative to a group or audience.
Legitimate power is the right to exercise control over others by virtue of the authority of one's superior organization position or status.
Legitimation, legitimization (US), or legitimisation (UK) is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process...
social scientists when claiming that a legitimation crisis exists, a predominant way of measuring a legitimation crisis is to consider public attitudes...
The doctrine of legitimate expectation was first developed in English law as a ground of judicial review in administrative law to protect a procedural...
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...
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...
The Legitimation League was an English advocacy organisation in the 1890s, which campaigned for the legitimation of illegitimate children and free love...
performances of such theatre were termed legitimate drama, while the abbreviation the legitimate refers to legitimate theatre or drama and legit is a noun...
The Legitimation of Power by David Beetham is a famous political theory text. The book examines the legitimation of power as an essential issue for social...
Legitimate Beef is the second album by Spongehead, released in 1990 through Community 3 Records. Adapted from the Legitimate Beef liner notes. Robbins...
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...
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...
personal and economic habits set against their particular demographic. Legitimate surveys are usually unpaid (as with a Gallup poll) or incentivized. Surveys...
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...
Max Weber distinguished three ideal types of legitimate political leadership, domination and authority. He wrote about these three types of domination...
Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) describes how newcomers become experienced members and eventually old timers of a community of practice or collaborative...
requested by the legitimate sellers Testing and evaluation – try before paying for what may be bad value Unavailability – no legitimate sellers providing...
trademark rights. While this doctrine permits the transfer of the particular legitimate copy involved, it does not permit making or distributing additional copies...
The Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR; Arabic: لجنة الدفاع عن الحقوق الشرعية) was a Saudi dissident group created in 1993 which opposed...
parents on 6 July 1880, eight years after his birth, resulted in the legitimation of their three surviving children, and George gained the style of Serene...
understandings of democracy at the time. However, the idea of what constituted a legitimate government shifted in the 18th century to include consent, especially...
Homologous recombination is a type of genetic recombination in which genetic information is exchanged between two similar or identical molecules of double-stranded...
historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea...
paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term...