ABSTRACT
By legitimation is meant socially objectivated “knowledge” that serves to explain and justify the social order…If [legitimations] are to be effective supporting the social order, however, they will have to be internalized and serve to define subjective reality as well. Legitimations, furthermore, can be both cognitive and normative in character. They do not only tell people what ought to be. Often they merely propose what is. (Berger, 1967, pp. 29–30, 32)
