A sociological Approach to the Concept of Authority (Power)

Abstract

The concept of authority, power, has several intellectual references, linked to the various transformations through which the general system moves outside and within society, and where the legitimacy of authority is debated, through different directions in its theses, even though it aims for a common political goal, aspiring to compete for strategic positions in Decision making. Perhaps this, i.e. these disparate references, is what may create the most important active factors in the political imbalance of societies, and thus is what establishes the interpretation of the concept of power in its relationship to various cultural variables, through sociological readings.

The sociological vision of the concept of power does not deviate from the inductive reading of the reality of human society in its time and place. It is an extension of the anthropological reading, and a non-chronological theoretical complement between the two readings. The definitions that the sociological vision adopts, in our approach, are, in most of its intellectual references, the same. Modern sources (pioneers of modern thought) present a problematic dimension to the concept of authority, rather than a comprehensive, comprehensive definition.