In this paper, I present a positive theory of legitimation to explain why governments offer official statements after killing their own people and to ascertain whether the intuition behind Weberian legitimacy – that rule is most stable when subjects voluntarily comply – is accurate. Data for testing the theory is drawn from qualitative analysis of official responses to 156 cases of state violen...

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• Articulation of commencement speeches in US colleges through legitimating strategies. Legitimation at the crossroads Critical Discourse Analysis and Metaphor Analysis. Multifunctional nature metaphors colleges’ speeches. Meritocracy common good as core values narrative American Dream. Following an interdisciplinary approach anchored (CDA) (CMA), this article focuses on a genre which has flour...

oVerView Research into body work based complementary and alternative therapies, such as osteopathy and chiropractic has highlighted barriers and benefits of professionalization for these professions. There has been no examination of the road massage therapy has taken towards legitimation and professionalization. This review article examines the drive by massage therapists for legitimation as he...

Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

How do international organisations (IOs) legitimise their right to rule in times of a Pandemic? Where are previously made environmental commitments on agenda during crisis? What the differences self-legitimation, if any, across different types IOs? These questions have gathered renewed urgency ongoing COVID-19 and climate change crises posing threat legitimacy not only national governments but ...