SOCI-232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Charismatic Authority, Ideal Type, Instrumental And Value Rationality

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Appeals to bureaucracy and the rule of law. People follow this leader and are inspired by them because they trust their devotion to rule and law: traditional authority. A leader who returns to the good old days of tradition: charismatic authority. The leader is seen as being an extraordinary person. Charismatic leaders are well positioned to inspire social change. These three kinds of authorities can be found in different societies/cultures. Charismatic leaders may have a number of traits in common, but they"re never the exact same person. If you study their styles of leadership carefully, they all have an aura about them. They can all do something their followers believe nobody else can. Study society by describing ideal, typical forms of action and the motives that underline it. We know the ideal typical forms of action by studying texts and artifacts. Texts reveal the kinds of action in a given time and place.

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