| Max Weber - Social Science - 1968 - 371 pages
...is not really confined to the political sphere but stretches far behind it. Weber describes charisma as "a certain quality of an individual personality...supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional qualities."22 It is essential that the charismatic individual be recognized or regarded as such; "this... | |
| Max Weber - Social Science - 1968 - 371 pages
...CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY AND ITS ROUTINIZATION Charismatic Authority THE TERM "charisma" will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by...supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded... | |
| Anthony Giddens - Political Science - 1971 - 292 pages
...type of charismatic domination is, by definition, an extraordinary type. Charisma is defined by Weber as ' a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically... | |
| Larry T. Reynolds, Nancy J. Herman-Kinney - Social Science - 2003 - 1108 pages
...example, Max Weber's famous definition of charismatic authority as a social attribution by followers: A certain quality of an individual personality by...supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded... | |
| Lawrence Fine - Religion - 2003 - 508 pages
...endowed with "supernatural" power of some sort or another. "[T]he term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by...supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities," Weber writes. "These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but... | |
| Bernard Haykel - History - 2003 - 286 pages
...(Berkeley: University of California Press. l978). vol. I. pp. lOlOf. lll If.). Weber defmes charisma as 'a certain quality of an individual personality...apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernaturaI. superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such... | |
| Niamh Hourigan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 222 pages
...has been applied subsequently in a wide variety of contexts. 2. Weber applies the term charisma to "a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is set from ordinary men and treated as endowed with superhuman, supernatural or at least exceptional power... | |
| Ennis Barrington Edmonds - History - 2002 - 208 pages
...theory of charisma and routinization in more detail. According to Weber, in its purest form, charisma is a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically... | |
| Steven Sutcliffe - New Age movement - 2003 - 294 pages
...tease out a less-remarked ingredient: charisma. The sociologist Max Weber famously defines charisma as 'a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he [sic] is set apart from ordinary men [sic] and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or... | |
| Gerard Delanty, Engin F Isin - Social Science - 2003 - 438 pages
...charismatic, traditional and legal-rational. In Economy and Society, the term 'charisma' is 'applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically... | |
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