Charisma and Social Structure: A Study of Love and Power, Wholeness and TransformationThe author states in his preface, "Despite charismas growing importance, social science has made little progress in unraveling the enigma of charisma beyond that achieved by Max Weber over half a century ago. The results of the research reported in this book offer what I believe is a new and fruitful understanding of charisma." As Karl H. Pribram says in his Foreword,Bradley comes off as a superb scientist. Convinced that the common idea that charisma is mainly the leadership quality of an exceptional individual, Bradley believes that charisma occurs because of the nature and dynamics of certain groups. Much of his research is based on the study of communes in the 1970s. The results of the research reported in this landmark book offer important insights into our understanding of charisma. The relational forms that provide charisma with its power for radical social transformation within a group, a hierarchy of communion and a hierarchy of power, are what account for the stability of charismatic groups. Evidence suggests a similar interrelationship holds for noncharismatic systems. This book is for sociologists and psychologists and also for researchers, political opinion makers, advertisers, managers and anyone interested in the invisible workings of human power, love and communication. |
Contents
DEMYSTIFICATION | 27 |
RETHINKING CHARISMA | 49 |
SUBSTANTIATION | 77 |
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absentee charismatic actors asymmetric Benjamin Zablocki Bob Fulton bonds Chapter charis charismatic and noncharismatic charismatic authority charismatic communes charismatic leader charismatic leadership charismatic systems CHARISMATIC TYPE COHERENCE OF POWER coherent groups communion communitas conditional probabilities consensus contents dominance dyadic connectedness dyadic relations dyads effect elements enfolded evidence example exists Figure global coherence global order hierarchy high charismatic potential Holland and Leinhardt hologram holographic holonomic ideological images Incoherent individual interrelation involved Karl Pribram Loch Lomond love and power loving AND improving low charismatic potential Max Weber mean propn mean proportion measurement Model multiplex munes noncharismatic communes noncharismatic groups normative operational definition person positive affect power structure present Pribram Proposition rela relational patterns relationship relaxed sexual social organization social structure sociograms sociological sociometric statistically struc Survival Status Table theory tion Total transformation triad types triadic analysis Triadic Structure undirected uniplex wave Weber whole Zablocki