ABSTRACT
The twentieth century has been characterized by both a multitude and diversity of social movements, ranging from poor peasant revolutions that attempt to change national political organization, to groups focusing upon religious resurgence in industrialized nations. The literature on social movements helps to understand how the Catholic Worker came into existence in American society. Collective behavior specifically in the form of social movements, create social change. According to Max Weber: The term ‘charisma’ will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, super human or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. The routinization of charisma institutionalizes to a degree the goals and guiding myths of the organization. It provides a change also in who is allowed membership and in the incentive for participation in the group. “The original basis for recruitment is the personal charisma.
