tradition, in charismatic authority from the personality and leadership qualities of the individual (charisma), and in legal (or rational-legal) authority from powers that are bureaucratically and legally attached to certain positions. A classic example of these three types may be found in religion: priests (traditional), Jesus (charismatic), and the Roman Catholic Church (legal-rational). Weber also conceived of these three types within his three primary modes of conflict: traditional authority within status groups, charismatic authority within class, and legal-rational authority within party organizations. In his view every historical relation between rulers and ruled contained elements that can be analyzed on the basis of the above distinction. Comparison table See also Authority (sociology) Forms of government References Bibliography Weber, Max (1978/1922). Economy and Society, edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press. Weber, Max (2015/1919). "Politics as Vocation" in Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society. Edited and Translated by Tony Waters and Dagmar Waters, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 129–198. Authority Max Weber Sociological terminology