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-'''Official culture''' is the [[culture]] that receives social [[legitimation]] or institutional support in a given society. Official culture is usually identified with ''bourgeoisie culture''. For revolutionary [[Guy Debord]], official culture is a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the [[public discourse]], and where such ideas are [[Social integration|integrated]] only after being trivialized and sterilized.+'''Legitimation''' or '''legitimization''' is the act of providing [[legitimacy|legitimacy]]. Legitimation in the [[social sciences]] refers to the [[process|process]] whereby an act, process, or [[ideology]] becomes legitimate by its attachment to [[Norm (sociology)|norms]] and [[values]] within a given [[society]]. It is the process of making something acceptable and normative to a group or [[audience]].
-A widespread observation is that a great [[skilled worker|talent]] has a free spirit. For instance [[Pushkin]], which some scholar regard as Russia's first great writer, attracted the mad irritation of the Russian officialdom and particularly of the Tsar, since he +Legitimate power is the right to exercise control over others by virtue of the [[authority]] of one's superior organization position or status.
-:"instead of being a good servant of the state in the rank and file of the administration and extolling conventional virtues in his vocational writings (if write he must), composed extremely arrogant and extremely independent and extremely wicked verse in which a dangerous freedom of thought was evident in the novelty of his versification, in the audacity of his sensual fancy, and in his propensity for making fun of major and minor tyrants."+==Power and influence==
 +For example, the legitimation of power can be understood using [[Max Weber]]'s traditional bases of power. In a [[bureaucracy]], people gain legitimate use of power by their positions in which it is widely agreed that the specified person hold authority . There is no inherent right to wield power. For example,a president can exercise power and authority because the position is fully legitimated by society as a whole.
 +In another example, if an individual attempts to convince others that something is "right", they can invoke generally accepted arguments that support their [[Political agenda|agenda]]. [[Advocacy group]]s must legitimate their courses of action based on invoking specific [[social norms]] and values. Invoking these norms and values allows the group to proceed in a rational and coherent manner with the expectation that their subsequent behavior is legitimated by the norms and values which guide their organizations.
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 +==Family law==
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 +Legitimation can also be used as a legal term where a father of a child born out of wedlock becomes the child's legal father. Prior to legitimation, the child is said to be illegitimate. Once a child has been legitimated, he or she is entitled to all of the benefits from that father as he or she would if that man had been married to the child's mother at the time of the child's birth. The father is responsible for providing support to the child and the child is entitled to inherit from the father.
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 +==Canon Law==
 +Legitimation is a term in [[Roman Catholic]] [[canon law]] to remove the [[canonical irregularity]] of [[illegitimacy]] for candidates for the priesthood.
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 +== See also ==
 +* [[Machiavellianism]]
 +* [[Symbolic violence]]
 +* [[Structural abuse]]
-==See also== 
-*[[Dictator of the arts]] 
-*[[High culture]] 
-*[[Doxology]] 
-* [[The arts and politics]] 
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Legitimation or legitimization is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process whereby an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate by its attachment to norms and values within a given society. It is the process of making something acceptable and normative to a group or audience.

Legitimate power is the right to exercise control over others by virtue of the authority of one's superior organization position or status.

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Power and influence

For example, the legitimation of power can be understood using Max Weber's traditional bases of power. In a bureaucracy, people gain legitimate use of power by their positions in which it is widely agreed that the specified person hold authority . There is no inherent right to wield power. For example,a president can exercise power and authority because the position is fully legitimated by society as a whole. In another example, if an individual attempts to convince others that something is "right", they can invoke generally accepted arguments that support their agenda. Advocacy groups must legitimate their courses of action based on invoking specific social norms and values. Invoking these norms and values allows the group to proceed in a rational and coherent manner with the expectation that their subsequent behavior is legitimated by the norms and values which guide their organizations.

Family law

Legitimation can also be used as a legal term where a father of a child born out of wedlock becomes the child's legal father. Prior to legitimation, the child is said to be illegitimate. Once a child has been legitimated, he or she is entitled to all of the benefits from that father as he or she would if that man had been married to the child's mother at the time of the child's birth. The father is responsible for providing support to the child and the child is entitled to inherit from the father.

Canon Law

Legitimation is a term in Roman Catholic canon law to remove the canonical irregularity of illegitimacy for candidates for the priesthood.

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