SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Frederick Winslow Taylor, Industrial Engineering, Time And Motion Study
13 Oct 2018
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Rationalism is the application of the most efficient means to achieve given goals and the often unintended, negative consequences of doing so. Rationalism in various social settings: economy, religion, law. Rationalism in economy: irrational and traditional forms: the household, clan, and village, the development of the guild, the development of the workshop, the development of rational capitalistic enterprises. Stages in the development of the legal system: Dysfunctions of bureaucracy: modern rationalized and bureaucratized systems of law have become. Academic legal training incapable of dealing with individual particularities, to which earlier types of justice were well suited: bureaucratization of the modern world has led to its depersonalization. The "iron cage" traps individuals in systems based purely on rational calculation and control. Efficiency - the optimum method of completing a task. The rational determination of the best mode of production. Calculability - assessment of outcomes based on quantifiable rather than subjective criteria. They sell the big mac, not the good mac.
