Rationalization
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Template:Wiktionary Rationalization is the main theme of Weber’s work. Rationalization refers to a large-scale social trend marked by the disenchantment of the world and the rise of capitalism in that rational calculation and efficiency are highly valued.
Rationalization can refer to more than one thing:
- In psychology, rationalization is the process of constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process.
- In economics, rationalization is an attempt to change a pre-existing ad-hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of published rules.
- In sociology, rationalization is the means of transition from a traditional society into a rationalized one.
- In British history it was the process of destroying old factories and gradually replacing them with newer and better ones. This was incorporated by Neville Chamberlain in 1931 and it eventually ended in 1938.
- In Engineering, within complex impedance and admittance systems, to multiply numerator and denominator by the complex conjugate of the denominator to remove the imaginary numbers from the denominator while convering admittance to impedance. This technique is called rationalization.