SOCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Decision-Making, Instrumental And Value Rationality, Social Order
15 Mar 2017
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Distinctions: marx, the social order is produced by capitalism, durkheim, the social order is produced through modernity, weber, the social order is produced through rationalism and disenchantment. Disenchantment: disenchantment is the negative outcome of rationality being taken too far, disenchantment is equivalent to marx"s alienation. The world becomes an artificial construction that gets away from us. What is the purpose?" : life becomes focused on having the most technical control. We use things and take them for granted: rationalization does not equal progress any more than it equals being reasonable. We are not increasing the quality of our lives. Keeping people alive on machines does not mean they are living good lives: technical progress does not equal real progress, superficial knowledge is not actual knowledge. The singularity of western culture: western rationality was never confined into a particular sector, never took upon a fixed form it was always increasing westerners must rationalize everything, we have different types of rationality.
