In social science there many important theorists such as Èmile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, and they discussed a lot of concepts in social science but this essay will focus and examine Max Weber’s concept of rationalization, and to what extent does this concept will help to explain the characteristics of modern societies. There is a lot of information about rationalization over many centuries, its start with Max Weber in the 19th century with much of details. Modern society characteristics passed through huge fluctuations and this because a large number of reasons and this essay will discuss this causes in details plus the relation of social actions and rationalization and to what level the relation between them affect social behaviour. …show more content…
(Greth, 2009: XXX). Moreover, his view about rationality was related with European community when they moved from the previous system to capitalism. (Kalberg, 2010). Otherwise, he believed that rationalization process helps us to understand society and economy (Gane, 2002:6). And there are four types of rationalization and they were mentioned in the previous paragraph, and the point is to do not cancel or ignore religion role in rationalization. However, Weber trusted that the change towards rational-lawful ability was inescapable and in charismatic ability, the end of a head adequately closes the energy of that specialist, and just through a legitimized and bureaucratic base would this be able to ability be accepted on. Conventional abilities in supported social orders likewise have a tendency to build up a rational-legal principle to improve on guarantee a steady increase. This refers that Weber saw rational-legal unavoidable and this lead to the next point which are the three main things concerned with rationality, first thing is efficiency this means getting the greatest outcome with the lowest quantity of effort, the next one is predictability and this concerned with desire to expect what is going to occur later on, the third one is calculability and it is about data, scoring, numbers and numerical data, the last one is dehumanization and this explains employing technology, which means to …show more content…
And in the present days, social behaviour become more rational because awareness in societies increased, and according to Bahatta (2010:18), urbanization also rose because of the openness of cultures to each other and the movement of people from the rural area to the cities after the industrial revolution. Furthermore, Weber believed that one of the aspects of rationalization is predictability and dehumanization, and it was explained in previous paragraphs, these two concepts have a direct relationship with