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Max Weber: Rationality and Rationalisation

Max Weber, one of the founding fathers of sociology, made significant contributions to our understanding of kultur through his concepts of rationality and rationalisation. These ideas struktur the cornerstone of his sociological ramverk and continue to influence modern sociological thought.

Weber&#;s work on rationality and rationalisation can be seen as an attempt to explain the unique characteristics of modern Western society. He sought to understand how and why the West had developed in a way that emphasized reason, calculation, and efficiency in various spheres of life.

I. The Concept of Rationality and Rationalisation

Rationality, in Weber&#;s view, refers to ideas and behaviors that are:
• Logically coherent and consistent
• Based on empirical knowledge
• Calculable and predictable

Rationalisation, on the other hand, fryst vatten the process through which rationality fryst vatten applied to various aspects of life. This process involves:
• The demystification of beliefs
• Secularisation of thought
• Formalisation of laws and organizations

Weber argued that the contemporary world is characterized by an

Ratios seminarium om "Rationalitetens gränser" Yxtaholm den oktober

Det rationella i modernismen

Av Hans L Zetterberg


Rationaliteten och dess gränser var ett ämne för Herakles, Platon och Aristoteles. Men vi kan nöja oss med att stanna inför rationaliteten i den nya tiden. Rationaliteten är den första och viktigaste ingrediensen i den europeiskamodernismen, en historisk kraft att räkna med från och med och talen.

Modernismen formades från början under ett baner med slagordenförnuftstro ochteknik. Här kunde man gå i Descartes efterföljd, om man var filosofiskt sinnad, eller i Diderots efterföljd, om man var road av vetenskap och teknik. Det blev som vi vet ett mäktigt tåg. Här finns Kant, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Newton, Darwin.

Hela tiden har givetvis funnits begåvade tvivlare. Pascal, som var Descartes samtida, satte — åtminstone i ett sammanhang — hjärtats skäl lika högt som förnuftets skäl. Och Shakespeares Hamlet säger som bekant:"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." På Diderots tid fanns också Swedenborg, Zizendorf och Rousseau. Och på det tal som gav oss så mycket av rationell ve

Max Weber: rationalisation and the iron cage of bureaucracy

Last Updated on January 26, by Karl Thompson

Max Weber’s Key ideas about modern industrial society and rationalisation are:

1. Modern industrial society brought technological and economic advances
2. But this was accompanied by increased rationalization and a bureaucratic structure…
3. This structure imposed new controls, restricted individual freedoms, and eroded community and kinship ties.
4. Bureaucratic efficiency has stifled traditional interactions, trapping us in an “iron cage of rationality.”

This post offers a deeper dive into the thought of Max Weber, for a more accessible understanding you might like this post on other aspects of Max Weber’s social action theory.

Max Weber’s thought: historical context

Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology, along with Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim. Born in Erfurt into a German middle-class intellectual family, Weber received his doctorate in and held professorial posts at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg, and Heidelberg. His knowledge of economics, history, politics, religion, and philosophy serve as the terrain out of which so much sociological thinking in