Rationalization (sociology)
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| - | '''Modernity''' is a term that refers to the [[modern era]]. It is distinct from [[modernism]], and, in different contexts, refers to cultural and intellectual movements of the period c. 1630-1940. The term "modern" can refer to many different things. Colloquially, it can refer in a general manner to the 20th century. For historians, the [[Early Modern Period]] refers to the period roughly from 1500 to 1800, with the [[Modern era]] beginning sometime during the 18th century. In this schema, [[industrialization]] during the 19th century marks the first phase of modernity, while the 20th century marks the second. Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century, replaced by [[post-modernism]], while others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by [[post-modernism]] and into the present. | + | In [[sociology]], '''rationalization''' is the process whereby an increasing number of [[social actions]] and interactions become based on considerations of [[teleological]] efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from custom, tradition, or emotion. It is regarded as a central aspect of [[modernity]], manifested especially in [[Western society]]; as a behaviour of the capitalist market; of rational administration in the state and bureaucracy; of the extension of modern science; and of the expansion of modern technology. |
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| + | Many sociologists, [[critical theorists]] and contemporary [[philosophers]] have argued that the spread of rationalization has a [[dehumanization|dehumanizing]] effect on Western society, moving [[modernity]] away from the central tenets of [[Enlightenment in Western secular tradition|enlightenment]]. | ||
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| - | *[[Early Modern Europe]] | + | * [[Modernity]] |
| - | *[[Modern era]] | + | * [[Postmodernity]] |
| - | *[[Age of Enlightenment]] | + | * [[Consumerism]] |
| - | *[[Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns]] | + | * [[Industrialization]] |
| - | *[[Postmodernity]] | + | * [[Urbanization]] |
| - | ==See also== | + | * [[Secularization]] |
| - | *[[Rationalization (sociology)]] | + | |
| - | *[[Urbanization]] | + | |
| - | *[[Industrialization]] | + | |
| - | *[[Postmodernity]] | + | |
| - | *[[Hypermodernity]] | + | |
| - | *[[Late modernity]] | + | |
| - | *[[Second modernity]] | + | |
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In sociology, rationalization is the process whereby an increasing number of social actions and interactions become based on considerations of teleological efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from custom, tradition, or emotion. It is regarded as a central aspect of modernity, manifested especially in Western society; as a behaviour of the capitalist market; of rational administration in the state and bureaucracy; of the extension of modern science; and of the expansion of modern technology.
Many sociologists, critical theorists and contemporary philosophers have argued that the spread of rationalization has a dehumanizing effect on Western society, moving modernity away from the central tenets of enlightenment.
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