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Article name The Concept and Sociocultural Factors of Charismatic Process
Authors Cherepanova L.V. Doctor of Pedagogy, professor, cherepanovaLara@mail.ru
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Section SOCIOLOGY
UDK 316
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Annotation category of “charismatic process” in sociological theory as a special type of social process and identification of its socio-cultural determinants. The study presents a logical scheme of charismatic process that includes the latent and the explicit stages. The latent stage is a social background urging the appearance of a social leader. It consists of two components. The first one is a cultural legitimating of charisma that implies the presence in the culture of a stable, emotionally colored image of a charismatic leader. The second one is a crisis, i.e. the maturing of the need to resolve the acute social crisis. During the crisis the charismatic leader acts as a restoring mechanism and serves as a symbolic social order guarantor. The latent stage turns into the explicit one when there appears such a leader who satisfies the criteria of personal charisma, i.e. personifies a mythological image of a hero who is capable of resolving the crisis. The conceptual framework suggested by the author allows detecting a charismatic process if all of the above-mentioned factors are evident.
Key words charisma, charismatic process, sociocultural determinants of charismatic process, latent and explicit stages of charismatic process.
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