Monday, December 13, 2021
Max Weber - Intro to Soc/ Pol (SOCY 151)
Gemende - an organized group subject to a charismatic authority or charismatic community based upon an emotional form of communal relationship (Vergemeinschaftung).
It is sharply opposed to rational and bureaucratic authority.
Charismatic want satisfaction is a typically anti-economic force... it constitutes an irregular unsystemtic act.
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Too much homework, Sir!
The homework was mine... and I just finished it this morning. Had to learn more about "charismatic authority" as distinguished from both "traditional authority" and "Legal Rational Authority". It's kinda like the "kynicism vs. cynicism" of Peter Sloterdijk's Critique of Critical Reason.
I read that one when it was all the rage down our way.
Wondering how much of this can be rightfully dismissed as nonsense in the same way the concept of "social justice" can.
TC:
Funny how the concept of social justice doesn't seem to have arrived at Mordor's shores yet, despite it having one of the most progressive Constitutions since Mozes. I guess its authors were paleo-altRight...
Gert,
Oh it's arrived (if you mean the US is Mordor). It's just not well-received. Threadbare though it may be after two and a half centuries, the sense of equality that de Tocqueville observed in early America is still there. And doesn't easily expand, as say women's suffrage and slave emancipation still took a while. Just not driven to farce quite yet.
Framed individually, Weber's Protestant work ethic pretty much ensures nobody's getting some kind of novel innovation of civil rights without the struggle first. Any Bakunin style shortcut "propaganda of the deed" style terrorism-for-change is bound to fail here. The absolute worst thing you can try to do is push an American around. We have nukes and using them saves a maintenance budget. ;)
Well, I wouldn't quite say America is immune to Bakuninist terrorism-for-change. The American labor union movement did in fact blow up (mind the pun) and form its territorial claim / place in society.
I think social justice as a concept is resisted in America (so much that it has been) because it can't overcome it's lack of a coherent definition, and Americans typically leave babbling to pop music.
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