Legitimate Heuristic

(noun)

Generally, a heuristic that imports positive generalizations to a particular person.

Related Terms

  • heuristic
  • stereotype

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.
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