administration," as a function of "a calculable legal system and of administration in terms of formal rules" (Weber, 1978, p. 25), and of "a system of rights legitimately acquired by purposive contract (Weber, 1978, p. 99). The sense of legitimacy can be even further reinforced by the rallying force of a leader whose charisma inspires allegiance and validates authority in the social structure. Weber interprets the legitimate authority of the charismatic leader, not as the prerogative of power but as "the duty of those who have been called to a charismatic mission to recognize its quality and act accordingly" (Weber, 1978, p. 49). Further, the mission is not permanently self-justifying but inevitably becomes transformed into either rational or traditional authority, and "the purely personal character of leadership is eliminated" (Weber, 1978, p. 55). In other words, even charisma contains seeds of the rationalization process.
Weber interprets structure and order as the result of successive, systematic applications of processes of rationalization and a share
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