Becoming a God: Max Weber and the social construction of charisma
@article{Joosse2014BecomingAG, title={Becoming a God: Max Weber and the social construction of charisma}, author={Paul Joosse}, journal={Journal of Classical Sociology}, year={2014}, volume={14}, pages={266 - 283} }
This article seeks to demonstrate that implicit within Weber’s writings on charisma are tools that can enable a processual, social constructionist understanding of charismatic formation. A corollary of this point is that Weber’s writings represent an historically crucial turning point in the progression from a Carlylian idea of leaders as inherently powerful to a non-essentialist, sociological perspective, and that Weber’s inspiration for this progression is best understood not through…
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