Beyond Leadership Frameworks

This article argues that rather than returning to a traditional “sociology of leadership,” which is modernist and positivist in nature, seeking both to offer multiple frameworks yielding relatively true accounts of leadership as well as providing a sing positivist foundational met a narrative that attempts to underwrite this relativism as “science,” we ought to adopt a critical and pragmatic strategy toward the leadership quandary. This pragmatism would attempt to reveal the historic sources of our contemporary leadership malaise; shift inquiry to the form of life which warrants current leadership rhetoric; and seek to locate and surface here to for hidden leadership transactive events in our postmodern/poststructural fin de sile.