German sociologist who defined the modern state as the institution that successfully claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory, a definition set out in his 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation and still the standard definition of the state in political science. He also developed an influential typology of authority as traditional, charismatic or legal-rational. He died in 1920.
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Weber's Politics as a Vocation (1919) supplied the classic sociological definition: a state successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
Source Max Weber (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Weber's tripartite typology of traditional, charismatic and legal-rational authority is the classic sociological account of legitimacy.
Source Max Weber (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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1. Max Weber - Wikipedia (Wikipedia)
intro: 'German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist'View the Source 2. Max Weber (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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German sociologist who defined the modern state as the institution that successfully claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory, a definition set out in his 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation and still the standard definition of the state in political science.
- Founded: Legitimacy
- Advocated: The State
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