Max Weber's Concept Of Rationalization

Max Weber’s concept of “rationalization”

“Rational” means differently depending on certain subjects or matters. Using bureaucracy model Weber’s theory is seen as a symbol of the constant waving norms of modern society. As a process in terms of the replacement of rational and consistent rules for the conventions or say, illogical rules that are existing today. In Weber’s perception, bureaucracy is seen as the fundamental model when it comes to rational rules with its features like extremely predictable in both labor production and job process. Bureaucracy is more being concerned rather than the product values themselves. Weber saw this as a very lose and ineffective and also totally flawed structure. In this essay, discussion on the question

In ‘The Protestant Ethics and Spirits of capitalism’(1965), Weber wrote what is the emergence of rationalization looks like during the time started from the time of Protestantism: gave birth to the spirit of capitalism. Rational capitalism has its rise with social structure change shined in the Calvinist theory. Calvinism means certain act of dedicating oneself to work to get or obtain the grace from mighty god also to make sure his after life in heaven.(Weber, 2011). However, hardly earned profits from work is for being invested into business but not for being utilized in guilty consumption. Material success distinguish people by a gauge in terms of measuring how blessed they are, which caused the emergence of a whole new work ethic as a branch of the practicers of Calvinism. They working hard and put their money and every thing return into investments, which somehow made them capitalists again. Later on, Weber translates a work of Benjamin Franklin which regarding the time as in the money. Benjamin wrote “time is money and the waste of time is the waste of money”.(Lemert, 2009) Also, Benjamin didn’t worry about surviving but building his wealth as the best he could itself is an ethic and peculiar capitalism. Above ethnic

Hereby, I gsee the contradictions inherent in progress, and in a society which bases its whole method of action on it. The highly organized and hierarchical structure of society is necessary for such large and developed Western, capitalist societies. They could not exist without it. But as we all should know by now, every step in progress leads to one step back regressively. The highly efficient and bureaucratic model of society has led to calculability, results and predictability in the affairs of the world. But, with the increasing rationalization and bureaucratic organization of society has come the loss of shared values in the public realm. Not only that, it has led to the development of the iron cage and modern humanity’s entrapment within it and the threat of increasing dehumanization and depersonalization in individuals and in whole societies. What does this spell for the future of our