Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 07, Number 4 (WINTER, 1971)

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    Formal and Rational Authority: Some Notes, Hypotheses and Applications
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1971-01-01) Bower, Theodore
    Talcott Parsons questioned the analytic precision of Max Weber's legal-rational type of authority in bureaucratic organizations. It is proposed that two separate types should be istinguished: rational and legal (or formal) authority. The basis of legitimation for the first is the effective utility of the person in authority, i.e. his technical competence to perform. On the other hand, legal authority is invested in an individual on the basis of a normative or legal structure. Another difference between the owo rests on the premise that formal authority derives from the organization, whereas rational authority may find its source of legitimation outside the organization. In the case of formal authority, the organization defines the boundaries within which domination is exercised. For rational authority, the power utilized depends on the capability of the individual to accomplish effective action. UtiliZing these two types of authority as dimensions, Dahrendorf's conflict model may be employed to predict the nature of the relationships between two authority figures. A typology of authority types may be derived.
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    Sociology of War: An Annotated Bibliography
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1971-01-01) Sariola, Sakari
    Annotated bibliographies in the war-peace area have been pubblished by Robert Pickus and Robert Woito (To End War, Perennial Library, Harper and Row Publishers, 1970) and Blanche Wiesen Cook, Charles Chatfield and Sandi Cooper (The Garland Library of War and Peace, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1971). The present bibliography, much more limited in scope than these two, is introduced in response to the needs of the increasing numbers of students who have an interest in seminal books in the field.
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    Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 7, Number 4 (WINTER, 1971): Front Matter
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1971-01-01)
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    Charles Loring Brace and Dangerous Classes: Historical Analogues of the Urban Black Poor
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1971-01-01) Cordasco, Francesco
    An overview of the work of Charles Loring Brace (1826-1890), one of the founders of the Children's Aid Study, and with particular attention to Brace's The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them (1872). Brace was one of the most influential late 19th century social reformers who largely articulated the concept of self-help and opposed all charitable efforts which (in his view) tended toward pauperization. Sees Brace as an appropriate source from whiCh to approach contemporary American urban poverty and relates Brace to contemporary American urban poverty and relates Brace to contemporary urban reformers, e v g, , Daniel P. Moynihan and Bayard Rustin. Discerns in Brace" (and preeminently in the contemporary Moynihan) a pragmatism whose constructs, literally implemented spell out in clear detail the routes which lead out of poverty as they have been formulated over the course of a century."
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    Relative and Absolute Mobility Rates in the United States
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1971-01-01) Miller, L. Keith
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    Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 7, Number 4 (WINTER, 1971): Book Review
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1971-01-01) Kolaja, Jiri