Thus the reaction to eastern religions paralleled that to Greek philosophy; both were perceived as new ways of thinking that threatened to undermine traditional mores and the relations of authority implicit in them.
In addition to modeling relations of authority and the division of cognitive labor as described above, he offers what he terms a compromise between extreme rationalists and sociological debunkers.
Certainly, his views on the relation of belief, authority, and understanding are worthy of contemporary attention.
Another way in which the relation between legitimacy and the creation of authority may be understood is that the attempt to rule without legitimacy is an attempt to exercise power not authority.
The arguments against Wolff usually concentrate on his conception of autonomy and its relation to authority.
Throughout the decade, the work of feminist social epistemologists addressed many issues being taken up by other social epistemologists as well: the dynamics of testimony and relations of cognitive authority, communal analyses of evidence and epistemic agency, the social structure of scientific knowledge, social conceptions of objectivity, and understandings of knowledge as social practice.
Pedagogic relations include hierarchies of authority between teachers and learners, inclusion and exclusion in classroom learning, success and failure in evaluations, hierarchies that may be more or less explicit.
Descriptions of engagement with members of local or state government describe the broadest relations to positions of authority and additionally provided further links to material resources.
GPs, who reflected on their role as a medical expert in relation to authorities, shared experiences of carrying the full responsibility to decide whether a patient would get monetary sick leave benefits and were unhappy about feeling left by social insurance officers with this task.
This paper describes the progress of world-wide research on institutional design, both on the level of the regulatory regime as well as on the level of the governance of the relation between authority and operator of public transport services.
