Examples of cult of personality in the following topics:
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- In popular speech, we think of charisma as a positive personality trait, but for Max Weber, charisma referred simply to a relationship between a leader and his or her subjects.
- Weber defined charismatic authority as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him" .
- Charismatic authority is power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities, or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
- In order to help to maintain their charismatic authority, such regimes will often establish a vast cult of personality, which is signaled when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
- Weber defined charismatic authority as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him."
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- The Christian counter-cult movement is a social movement of Christian ministries and individual Christian counter-cult activists who oppose religious sects thought to either partially or entirely fail to abide by the teachings of the Bible.
- In the 1930s, cults became the object of sociological study in the context of the study of religious behavior.
- Cults, for Becker, were small religious groups lacking in organization and emphasizing the private nature of personal beliefs.
- Mind control refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated. "
- Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple, a cult that committed a mass murder-suicide in 1978.
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- In addition to there existing various legitimate means of holding power, there are a variety of forms of government.
- The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch.
- Currently, 44 nations in the world have monarchs as heads of state, 16 of which are Commonwealth realms that recognise the monarch of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
- Furthermore, freedom of political expression, freedom of speech and freedom of the press are essential so that citizens are informed and able to vote in their personal interests.
- Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.
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- One well-known example of this type of government is a monarchy.
- The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch.
- Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.
- Freedom of political expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press are essential so that citizens are informed and able to vote in their personal interests.
- This map shows all the countries of the word, colored according to their type of government.
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- Cults are also more likely to be led by charismatic leaders than are other religious groups and the charismatic leaders tend to be the individuals who bring forth the new or lost component that is the focal element of the cult.
- Cults, like sects, often integrate elements of existing religious theologies, but cults tend to create more esoteric theologies from many sources.
- As cults grow, they bureaucratize and develop many of the characteristics of denominations.
- Some denominations in the U.S. that began as cults include: Christian Science, and The Nation of Islam.
- Most religious people would do well to remember the social scientific meaning of the word cult and, in most cases, realize that three of the major world religions originated as cults, including: Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism.
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- Though the theory turns out not to be true, the logic follows that of Durkheim's explanation of organic solidarity.
- Along with Marx and Weber, French sociologist Emile Durkheim is considered one of the founders of sociology.
- Yet all around him, Durkheim observed evidence of rapid social change and the withering away of these groups.
- Simpler societies, he argued, are based on mechanical solidarity, in which self-sufficient people are connected to others by close personal ties and traditions (e.g., family and religion).
- To stress the importance of this concept, Durkheim talked of the "cult of the individual. " However, he made clear that the cult of the individual is itself a social fact, socially produced; reverence for the individual is not an inherent human trait, but a social fact that arises in certain societies at certain times .
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- The purposes of rituals are varied.
- Rituals of various kinds are a feature of almost all known human societies, past or present.
- They include not only the various worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also the rites of passage of certain societies, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals, school "rush" traditions and graduations, club meetings, sports events, Halloween parties, veterans parades, Christmas shopping and more.
- Alongside the personal dimensions of worship and reverence, rituals can have social functions that express, fix and reinforce the shared values and beliefs of a society.
- Identify the types of and purposes of rituals in various contexts of society, such as religion or politics
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- A sect differs from cults in the degree that members are recruited and kept.
- Whereas the cult is able to enforce its norms and ideas against members, a sect has followers, sympathizers, supporters, or believers.
- A sect may also have members who choose to leave later, whereas a cult uses any means necessary to keep its members, including coercion.
- Adherents of a given faction may believe that for the achievement of their own political or religious project their internal opponents must be purged.
- Ideal types are pure examples of the categories.
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- The sacred–profane dichotomy is an idea posited by French sociologist Émile Durkheim, who considered it to be the central characteristic of religion: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden."
- In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represented the interests of the group, especially unity, which were embodied in sacred group symbols, or totems.
- Durkheim's claim of the universality of this dichotomy for all religions/cults has been criticized by scholars such as British anthropologist Jack Goody.
- Goody also noted that "many societies have no words that translate as sacred or profane and that ultimately, just like the distinction between natural and supernatural, it was very much a product of European religious thought rather than a universally applicable criterion."
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- The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.
- The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.
- As sociology emerged, primarily as a reaction to the negative affects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with "emotion" without forming a part of any specific subdiscipline: Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal "species-being," Simmel wrote of the deindividualizing tendencies of "the metropolis," and Weber's work dealt with the rationalizing effect of modernity in general.
- Randall Collins: He stated that emotional energy is the main motivating force in social life, for love and hatred, investing, working or consuming, and rendering cult or waging war.
- Examine the origins of the sociology of emotions through the work of Marx, Weber, and Simmel, and its development by T.