Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Joosse, Paul

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“…The developmental flow of abilities marks temporal shifts in the pasts, presents, and futures of persons (Tavory 2018; Tavory and Eliasoph 2013). Some competencies are understood to be distinctive in their exceptionality or rarity—anomalous abilities (Joosse 2017). Other abilities are common, widely distributed, taken for granted, and unnoticed (Maynard and Turowetz 2017, 2019)—average abilities.…”

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Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence: Impression Management Techniques for Feigning Lesser Selves

McLuhan

2020

Sociological Theory

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The “cloak of competence” concept captures attempts to disguise limitations and exaggerate abilities. The author examines the conceptual converse: the “cloak of incompetence,” or the various ways people deliberately disregard, disguise, downplay, or diminish their personal abilities. Drawing on a comparative analysis of manifold empirical cases, the author identifies three generic competence-concealing techniques—avoidance, performance, and neutralization—and considers some of the interactional contingencies that can enhance or reduce their effectiveness. Avoidance and performance techniques are used to manage creditable competence. Neutralization techniques are used to manage credited competence. Each strategy obstructs the appearance and attribution of competence in a particular way: avoidance techniques prevent the dramatic realization of competence, performance techniques dramatically realize incompetence, and neutralization techniques discount, downplay, distance, or otherwise explain away evident but undesirable competent performances. The author concludes by discussing some implications for sociologies of persons, culture, and structure.

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Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence: Impression Management Techniques for Feigning Lesser Selves

McLuhan

2020

Sociological Theory

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“…The corpus includes 75 speeches by Trump given from February 26, and April 26, 2020, and 43 speeches by Ardern from March 14 to May 14, 2020. Following Goffman's model, we can interpret speeches as situations in which leaders perform their power position; in setting up the frontstage, leaders assign a role to F. Sacca, D. Selva other actors, such as allies, advisers and opponents, and all of them form part of a choreography [17][18][19]. In this perspective, we have analyzed the role of scientific experts in such performances.…”

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Women political leaders in pandemic times: comparing Jacinda Ardern’ and Donald Trump’s representation of the COVID-19 crisis

Saccà

Selva

2021

Nauka Kultura Obshestvo

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In the context of the Covid-19 meta-crisis, leadership styles have emerged as a key factor for determining a country’s ability to contain the contagion and recover. In what follows, we want to explore the features of such leadership styles by taking a gender perspective. This article argues that women leaders have successfully governed the crises originated by the pandemic not only because of their inherent ability to build relationships, enhance community bonds, and “tune” with the anxieties of citizens; the women leaders’ approach to science has proven to be decisive as well. Contrarily to common-sense expectations, when compared with men leaders, women have demonstrated to be more responsive and attentive to scientific advice, and to use their understanding of science as a factor of legitimacy. Our data are based on a wider research project granted by the Italian Ministry of Research and coordinated by prof. Saccà. We have analyzed the discourses of two case studies, Donald Trump and Jacinda Ardern, as they identify ideal-typical features of two opposing leadership styles as far as science is concerned. The analysis of rhetorical formulas and frames highlight the differences in their discourses and approaches and proves how the women leaders’ ability of listening to experts’ advice and the needs of specific sectors of the population has been decisive for the success of the measures of containment of the virus.

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“…In this model, a certain degree of publicness is always present in every "stage" in which the agent/actor intervenes, as the boundaries of the stages are defined by the situations of social interaction. According to the studies on the charismatic performance, for instance, a leader's career should be assessed through the analysis of its appearances in the dramas it has written and played in (Joosse, 2017). Such studies have stressed the ephemerality of political leaders who perform a pseudocharisma based on popularity and visibility in the media (Massidda, 2020;Viviani, 2020).…”

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COVID-19 in Italy: Performing Power and Emotions

Blasio

Selva

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The article charts the notion of statehood emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the emotional repertoire and the themes addressed in the government’s crisis communication. The conception and performance of statehood and power in Italy during the COVID-19 emergency rely on four interrelated nodal points: (1) the state’s relationship to citizens, (2) the state’s relationship to regions and local governments, (3) the state’s relationship to politics and the Italian parliament, and (4) the state within international sphere. For each of those nodal points, we have analyzed relevant themes and rhetorical devices following a discourse-historical approach (DHA). Specific efforts have been made to identify the emotional repertoire mobilized by the Italian government in its communication. In the interplay between the dramatic context of crisis and an enduring trend toward the personalization of the government’s leadership, the source of legitimacy has shifted from traditional democratic procedures to the use of emotional capital. The analysis of the Italian government’s communication reveals the features of the emotional capital used during the pandemic, like the ability to display empathy toward citizens’ sufferings, the will to engage in dialog with social stakeholders, confidence in expertise, and the pride and determination to negotiate within the EU. The article concludes that the performance of the prime minister in expressing his emotional states has nurtured the conception of post-COVID statehood, consolidating his individual leadership and flawing the spaces of political conflict.

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Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Cited by 27 publications

References 76 publications

Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence: Impression Management Techniques for Feigning Lesser Selves

Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence: Impression Management Techniques for Feigning Lesser Selves

Women political leaders in pandemic times: comparing Jacinda Ardern’ and Donald Trump’s representation of the COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 in Italy: Performing Power and Emotions

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