 Parsons' image of why men obey. Parsons' response to the obedience of men in a society helps to comprehend better his image of power and authority. Parsons gave following reasons for such obedience, like the powerless comply with the powerful in a society because powerful have the capability to make binding decision on behalf of entire society. In any political sociologist's philosophy, what is the most important debate? The most important debate is about how they express the relationship between rulers and ordinary men. When Parsons gave the answer to this question that why men obey, why do ordinary people obey the rulers, the laws, the orders and the government? The first reason they gave was that the powerless are forced to follow the orders given to them and obey them. Another reason is that people do obey because they have freely selected to occupy such roles based upon the privileges those roles provide. Now this point is very interesting that the people who obey the orders basically do it with their consent because the roles they have given to them are agreed that they perform these roles and the authorities follow them. Those individuals who obey the commands of other individuals do so because of the obligation of their role. Now here this question is that why do Parsons think that they have to obey the orders that perform their roles because their role is that they have to obey God's commands so they have to follow. People obey because they realize that doing otherwise might compel powerful to use coercive means or application of force. This perspective is that point which is also present in the world nowadays. Even in today's modern times, people realize that if they don't obey the orders, then coercive means can be applied to them. So another important reason is that individuals obey because they realize that those commands which needs obedience needs to be obeyed because they are represented by the very highest values of a society. Now here this perspective is very interesting that people think that they have to obey the commands they have given to them because if they don't follow, then the system within the society needs to be obeyed so that the orders given by the authorities follow so that the system and the society continue to obey. So we can say that when Parsons presented his perspective on human society, why do people obey the orders? So different dimensions were explored that a human being follows the rules of law and follows the limitations of his role. People follow the rules of law because of fear. But in some cases there is another element and this element is very important and interesting that this is the nature of a human being. The nature of a human being is that if he sings along with his role, if he is satisfied with it, then he will follow the orders so that there is no harm in the society. If there is no such bitterness in the society that disturbs the social order of the society, the political order of the society. So these are the various dimensions when we talk about the Telcote Parsons philosophy that why men obey.