Examples of rationalization in the following topics:
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- Rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which authority is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
- In rational-legal authority, power is passed on according to a set of rules.
- Rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
- Ration-legal authority depends on routinized administration, which often involves a lot of paperwork.
- According to Weber, rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
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- Weber identified in bureaucracies a rational-legal authority in which legitimacy is seen as coming from a legal order.
- Accompanying this shift was an increasing democratization and rationalization of culture.
- Weber identified in bureaucracies a rational-legal authority in which legitimacy is seen as coming from a legal order.
- Instead of utilizing traditions, emotions, or values to motivate behavior, in a bureaucracy, people used rational calculation.
- Regarding Western societies, Weber called this increasing rationalization an "iron cage" that trapped individuals in systems based solely on efficiency, rational calculation, and control.
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- Berk (1974) uses game theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/game_Theory) to suggest that even a panic in a burning theater can reflect rational calculation: If members of the audience decide that it is more rational to run to the exits than to walk, the result may look like an animal-like stampede without in fact being irrational.
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- Sociologist George Ritzer theorizes "McDonaldization" as a contemporary form of rationalization.
- Many corporations have been making an effort to deny the rationalization of McDonaldization.
- McDonaldization as described by Ritzer is a reconceptualization of rationalization, or moving from traditional to rational modes of thought, and scientific management.
- In sociology, rationalization refers to the replacement of traditions, values, and emotions as motivators for behavior in society with rational, calculated ones.
- McDonaldization is a reconceptualization of rationalization, or moving from traditional to rational modes of thought, and scientific management.
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- Social exchange theory is only comprehensible through the lens of rational choice theory.
- Rational choice theory supposes that every individual evaluates his/her behavior by that behavior's worth, which is a function of rewards minus costs.
- Second, humans are rational actors.
- This means that what might seem rational to one person would seem completely irrational to another.
- Explain how social exchange theory is based upon rational choice theory
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- In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, his most famous text, Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
- Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism had an elective affinity with capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
- In contrast, Weber showed that certain types of Protestantism, notably Calvinism, supported worldly activities and the rational pursuit of economic gain.
- Because of this religious orientation, human effort was shifted away from the contemplation of the divine and towards rational efforts aimed at achieving economic gain.
- Instead of being viewed as morally suspect, greedy, or ambitious, financially successful believers were viewed as being motivated by a highly moral and respectable philosophy, the "spirit of capitalism. " Eventually, the rational roots of this doctrine outgrew their religious origins and became autonomous cultural traits of capitalist society.
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- Max Weber was particularly concerned about the rationalization of society due to the Industrial Revolution and how this change would affect humanity's agency and happiness.
- Weber's understanding of rationalization was three-fold: firstly, as individual cost-benefit calculations; secondly, as the transformation of society into a bureaucratic entity; lastly, and on a much wider scale, as the opposite of perceiving reality through the lens of mystery and magic (disenchantment).
- Since Weber viewed rationalization as the driving force of society and given that bureaucracy was the most rational form of institutional governance, Weber believed bureaucracy would spread until it ruled society.
- Related to rationalization is the process of disenchantment , in which the world is becoming more explained and less mystical, moving from polytheistic religions to monotheistic ones and finally to the Godless science of modernity.
- Compare the similarities and differences between Weber's Rationalization, Marx's Alienation and Durkheim's Solidarity In relation to the Industrial Revolution
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- Max Weber was particularly concerned about the rationalization and bureaucratization of society stemming from the Industrial Revolution and how these two changes would affect humanity's agency and happiness. [9] As Weber understood society, particularly during the industrial revolution of the late 19th century in which he lived, society was being driven by the passage of rational ideas into culture which, in turn, transformed society into an increasingly bureaucratic entity.
- Bureaucracy is a type of organizational or institutional management that is, as Weber understood it, rooted in legal-rational authority.
- Weber did believe bureaucracy was the most rational form of institutional governance, but because Weber viewed rationalization as the driving force of society, he believed bureaucracy would increase until it ruled society.
- Weber viewed this as a bleak outcome that would affect individuals' happiness as they would be forced to function in a highly rational society with rigid rules and norms without the possibility to change it.
- Since a completely rational society was inevitable and bureaucracy was the most rational form of societal management, the iron cage, according to Weber, does not have a solution.
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- Yet another theory of state formation focuses on the long, slow, process of rationalization and bureaucratization that began with the invention of writing.
- The Greeks were the first people known to have explicitly formulated a political philosophy of the state, and to have rationally analyzed political institutions.
- In Medieval Europe, feudalism furthered the rationalization and formalization of the state.
- Since then, states have continued to grow more rational and bureaucratic, with expanding executive bureaucracies, such as the extensive cabinet system in the United States.
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- The first type discussed by Weber is Rational-legal authority.
- The power of the rational legal authority is mentioned in a document like a constitution or articles of incorporation.
- Modern societies depend on legal-rational authority.
- God) that is superior to both the validity of traditional and rational-legal authority.
- Barack Obama, President of the United States, derives his authority from a rational-legal system of laws outlined in a formal document, the Constitution of the United States of America.