Max Weber Discussed Three Different Types of Authority

question 5

Multiple Choice

Max Weber discussed three different types of authority. Which example falls in the traditional authority category?

• A) Theodore Roosevelt
• B) Hebrew prophets such as Ezekiel
• C) President of the United States
• D) Pharaohs

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Definitions:

Problem-focused

A coping mechanism that involves directly addressing the cause of stress in a practical way.

Emotion-focused

A coping strategy that involves reducing the emotional distress associated with a situation.

Erikson's Stages

A theory of psychosocial development identifying eight stages through which a healthy developing individual should pass from infancy to late adulthood.

Ego Integrity Versus Despair

According to Erikson, the eighth and final stage of psychosocial development, in which people in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity of the self by accepting the lives they have lived, and thus accept death, or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived.