Legitimate Heuristic

Examples of Legitimate Heuristic in the following topics:

• Groups

  • Heuristics are sometimes perceived to be legitimate assumptions about an individual and sometimes deemed illegitimate.
  • Legitimate heuristics tend to just be those that import positive generalizations to a particular person.
  • However, the same heuristic can function in negative ways; this is the underlying mechanism that enables stereotypes.
  • Both legitimate and illegitimate heuristics demonstrate how knowledge about one's group affiliations conveys perceived social knowledge about that individual.
  • Discuss how heuristics allow people to learn about people within a society based on group affiliation and give examples of both positive and negative heuristics

• Authority and Legitimate Violence

  • Max Weber conceived of the state as a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.
  • In order to maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence, states must limit the means by which others may carry out violent acts.
  • Max Weber, in Politics as a Vocation, conceived of the state as a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.
  • Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation.
  • The right of self-defense is a private form of legitimate violence that is recognized by the state.

• Stereotypes in Everyday Life

  • Stereotypes are useful for the human brain because they operate as a heuristic or a cognitive mechanism to quickly gather, process, and synthesize information.
  • Therefore, we have heuristics to make the process more efficient.
  • In line with the reasoning that describes heuristics, distinguishing oneself from others is a cognitively necessary step; it allows us to develop a sense of identity.
  • Given the social and cognitive necessities of heuristics, the problem with stereotyping is not the existence of the cognitive function.

• Authority

  • Authority refers to the use of power that is seen as legitimate or socially approved/recognized.
  • Authority is the legitimate or socially approved use of power that a person or a group holds over another.
  • Max Weber, in his sociological and philosophical work, identified and distinguished three types of legitimate domination (Herrschaft in German, which generally means 'domination' or 'rule').
  • Legitimate authority is that which is recognized as legitimate and justified by both the ruler and the ruled.
  • Teachers have authority because students recognize that their power over the classroom is legitimate.

• Charismatic Authority

  • Charismatic authority is power legitimized by a leader's exceptional personal qualities, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
  • Charismatic authority is power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities, or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
  • Create a model of a hypothetical charismatic leader in a hypothetical government which describes the charisma and explains in detail how it is legitimized, used, and maintained

• Rational-Legal Authority

  • Weber defined legal order as a system wherein the rules are enacted and obeyed as legitimate because they are in line with other laws on how they can be enacted and how they should be obeyed.
  • These rules are enforced by a government that monopolizes their enactment, while holding the legitimate use of physical force.
  • Lastly, it must possess the right to legitimately use the physical force in its jurisdiction.

• Conflict Theory

  • A heuristic device to help you think about society from a conflict perspective is to ask, "Who benefits from this element of society?

• Power

  • The authority exerted by political leaders is an example of legitimate power.
  • Legitimate power, power given to individuals willingly by others, is called "authority;" illegitimate power, power taken by force or the threat of force, is called "coercion. " In the corporate environment, power is often expressed as upward or downward.

• Formal Means of Control

  • By the "monopoly on violence," Weber means the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
  • By this, Weber means that the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.

• Psychological Theories of Deviance

  • While psychiatric diagnoses are commonly used to explain deviance, one must remember that what counts as a legitimate diagnosis is always in contention.
  • The DSM, the manual for what the psychological community recognizes as a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis, is a revised manual.
  • However, since being removed from the DSM, homosexuality is no longer recognized as a legitimate psychiatric condition and, therefore, the now debunked homosexuality-as-psychiatric-condition does not serve an explanatory role in regards to deviant sexuality.