Week 5 lesson 2 by Usic https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl en-us 2021-10-18 10:33:23 UTC 2025-11-29 12:23:22 UTC hello@padlet.com G3 2648527 https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829769091 1. Weber thought that all the spheres of society, including the economic, political and legal spheres underwent the process of rationalisation .
2.In the study, rationalisation measures are described as being positive and absolutely essential in order to maintain competitive edge on the global market, and thus resources for good working conditions.
3.Traditional. Traditional Authority is dominant type of authority in traditional societies, based on the sacredness of tradition. While Rational-legal Authority is impersonal rules that have been legally established. Weber considers rational-legal authority as the main feature of social relations in modern world.
4.Weber was concerned that the spread of bureaucratic systems will lead into: Increased rational calculations,Increased control and over-regulation of all aspects of life, Over-consumption of world resources, Threatening traditional social 
institutions such as family and religion. Social inequality & Socio-political instability And ultimately imprison individuals in a ‘ steel-hard-cage’.
]]> 2021-10-20 08:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829769091 Group1 tli72 https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829780544 1.Rationalization, bureaucracy and social stratification
2.positive. Because For Weber, rationalization was the defining feature of the modern age, and he was deeply worried about it. Modern society is the society of explicit instructions and standardized, methodical, procedures which are always being reflected on and improved. It transformed a communal, traditional society into an individualistic, capitalist society – one that was focused on economic success. 
3.Tradition. Because the real defining features of the transition from traditionalism and modernity were ways of thinking. Not modes of production or social integration, but ideas. Traditionally is to take the basic set-up of the world as given.
4. yes he was worried about the modern world. He was worried that the systems that rationalisation built will leave behind the ideas that built them and that they'll simply roll on forever under their own momentum with no meaning. He worried that we'll become locked in an 'iron cage of bureaucratic capitalism' from which we can't escape. Our lives will become nothing but a series of interactions based on rationalised rules, with no personal meaning behind them.]]> 2021-10-20 08:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829780544 group 2 jwang326 https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829785811 1.The main feature of all fields of modernity is rationalization
2.Use rationalization as a negative aspect. Beacuse every thing in modern society stress rational or normal, individual characteristic slowly draining from people.
3. The opposite of reason is tradition, because one of the biggest effects of social rationalization was the rise of bureaucracy
4.yes,Weber worried that the systems that rationalization built will leave behind the ideas that built them,He worried that we'll become locked in what he called an "iron cage" of bureaucratic capitalism.]]> 2021-10-20 08:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829785811 Group1Activity2 tli72 https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829846624 1.Officials all have gone to specialized educational institutions where they had to follow a long and demanding professional training. They have been taught their job and they had to demonstrate their competence. In a series of standardized exams that resulted in official diplomas that carry a seal of approval by the state.
2. Bureaucratic organizations are everywhere nowadays: political or law enforcement agencies, hospitals, high schools and universities, modern armies and modern capitalist enterprises.
3.No. Weber hesitant criticism of modernity is very different from Marx’s, but the concept of alienation is always tangible. But according to Weber those problems have nothing to do with the rise of capitalism itself. They are the outcome of a more general process of rationalization. The modern capitalistic enterprise is just one of the many outcomes of this ongoing process of rationalization. It is the result of the penetration rationalization into the economic sector of the social worlds. 
4.In sociology, an iron cage is used to describe social life. Thus, the "iron cage" traps individuals in a system based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control.]]> 2021-10-20 09:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829846624 Group 2 A2 rmc6fwtg98 https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829855569 1、The main feature is the large organizations that can be found everywhere
2. Officials go to special educational institutions, where they have to undergo long and demanding professional training, and they have to prove themselves on a series of standardized tests
3. Bureaucratic rules are standardized and codified. Rationalization is the defining feature of modern society, which transforms a public and traditional society into an individualistic and capitalist one.
4."Iron cage" refers to: the bureaucratic social structure and the values that support and maintain it, beliefs and worldviews become the center of shaping social life]]> 2021-10-20 09:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829855569 Group3 https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829867609
1. Key features ars impersonal fashion, separate private life from professional tasks.

2. It is a professional organization which appear in universities Morden hospitals and so on.

3. no, i do not think that they are equivalent. bureaucracy is neutral whilst rationality and based on rules rather than ties of kinship, friendship, or patrimonial or charismatic authority.

4. Iron cage refers to the increased rationalization inherent in social life, particularly in Western capitalist societies. The "iron cage" thus traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control.]]> 2021-10-20 09:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/e3udlzrmib1ssdnl/wish/1829867609