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This chapter examines Habermas’s reconstruction of Mead’s analyses of socialization and coordination and why Habermas complemented them with mutual understanding into a modern, intersubjective communicative action perspective. A perspective that is characterized by equal rights to validate truth, rightness and truthfulness by saying yes or no to claims, without being excluded. Habermas linked these to the lifeworld and system, which transformed legitimated actions into rationalized legal codes and orders. Durkheim found that morality is the balancing factor in these processes, which Habermas developed and connected to law, discourses of morality and human rights. Finally, administrative power is explored. As it is mediated through role-players such as the client, the professional and the citizen, their opportunities to contribute to legitimation are analysed.
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Kihlström, A. (2020). Communicative Legitimacy. In: Communicative Legitimacy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54949-7_3
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