... complex stages and relationships. Weber believes that societies move from the primitive stage to theoretical and technical ones. According to Weber, the evolution of societies is facilitated by three types of authority that he identifies as traditional, charismatic and legal-rational authority (Fry, 1989). It is the legal-rational type of authority that constitutes the basis of Weber's ... Fry, is Weber's tool to express the most efficient and rational form of organization. By its essence, bureaucracy involves the element of control based upon the acquisition of specific types of knowled...

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... within a group, Weber lays particular stress on the importance of the relation of action in it, to an order. So in differentiating types of authority, he takes as his point of departure, variation in the nature of the claim of domination which is involved in an ... as well as the members are in some sense subject. From this starting point, Weber opens his analysis with the introduction of a classification of three basic types of authority; the 'rational-legal' authority, the 'traditional' authority and the 'charismatic' authority. Authority legitimized on rational grounds ...

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