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What Schiller and
Weber termed "the disenchantment of the world." The ongoing historical, processual replacement of magical (and other irrational) explanation with logically
consistent thought, belief, explanation, and culture.
Rationalization involves greater standardization and coordination in organizational
structure. In Weber's work the concept is closely related to bureaucratization, particularly in that it is seen as
the substitution of a system of impersonal consistent rules (legal authority, for Weber)
for arbitrary decisions (charismatic
authority, for
Weber).
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