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Legitimation

2021
This chapter studies why large social systems generate inequality. Half of it is bona fide returns to merit, while half of it is leverage of personal position into advantages for friends, families, and oneself. The organizations run by the elite take things from people and control their lives.
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Illness and the legitimation of failure

Nursing Research, 1972
In achievement oriented societies one may use illness to justify failure to fulfill socially prescribed role obligations. This hypothesis is tested on two samples of welfare mothers and one sample of working class black women. Many welfare mothers accept the dominant cultural view that being on welfare is a result of personal failure. When women accept
S, Cole, R, Lejeune
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Legitimating

European Public Law, 2003
The imposition of a 'fourth hurdle' of cost-effectiveness is becoming a common feature of the regulation of pharmaceuticals in several European countries. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), which operates in England and Wales, is one of the most visible examples of this phenomenon and represents an influential model for reform ...
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