Assignment due in class on October 26* from some students

*Since part of the value of the text summary assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due.  If you have to miss that day's class, please contact the instructor to make alternate arrangements.

Please read the selections from Max Weber assigned for October 26 and address the following two questions in well-written paragraphs (spanning 2-3 pages). Since this is your first reading of this text, and since we have not yet discussed it in class, you are not being asked to supply definitive answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on close attention to the text. Your answers may also include 1-2 important questions raised by your reading for further discussion. 

1.
Note Weber's definition of domination/authority/rule (= Herrschaft in the German original) as (1) "the probability that [commands] will be obeyed by a given group of persons" (ES, 212) or (2) "the possibility of imposing one's will upon the behavior of other persons" (Kalberg, 181).  In the first two reading selections (ES, 212-16, and Kalberg, 179-86), Weber gives some examples of power relationships that are included in the concept of Herrschaft, and also excludes certain kinds of power relations from the concept of Herrschaft.  With detailed reference to the text, name one included phenomenon and one excluded phenomenon, and explain why they are included/excluded according to Weber.

2.
What is the "routinization" of charisma, and what is its relationship to "tradition"?

As in your Text Summaries, please follow the guidelines in: Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources, pp. 1-3, 6, 10-19, 22-23, 50-51 [purchase book / selection in Coursepack 1 / book on reserve]

For parenthetical page references to the selections from Weber, Economy and Society, please use the following abbreviations:

• "ES" for the selections from Economy and Society, ed. Roth/Wittich
• "Kalberg" for the selection from Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity, ed. Kalberg