Rationalization

Elias attempts to bridge the gaps between micro and macro-sociology, focusing on how structural and individual personalities interact with one another in social change. Elias’s civilization process also has much in common with weber’s concept of rationalization. Having similar origins in the changing character of interactions between social structure and individual…

determination of what an individual would know depending on their perceptions. Following, with sense perception only limiting insight to what is an individual is aware of in a specific moment, it is unable to provide significant knowledge. It is through rationalization and intellectual reflection that one can grasp what something “is.” In essence, by eliminating what knowledge is not, they are one step closer to identifying what it truly…

decisions. Another less extreme example is when in times of grief, a person may cling to a favorite childhood toy or stuffed animal, which they used as a security blanket when they were young. Rationalization is a cognitive distortion of the facts. We do this on a semi- conscious level and use rationalization to justify or make excuses for our actions and behaviors. Our car may not be new and fancy, but it is paid for and runs reliably. But by…

labeled as deviants to society use techniques of neutralization, or rationalization in order to deflect society’s norms. (Henslin, 2015) Reasoning beyond our concrete understandings tends to be rationalized. We may use methods of rationalization to come up with a reason as to why we should do things that we know we shouldn’t do. A child who fails a term paper may rationalize that his teacher hates him. The problem with rationalization is that it tends to be exaggerated. However, these young…

Rationalization forms in multiple ways. For example, the organization is strong enough to absorb what he stole from organization. Rationalization makes them not feeling shameful of their wrongdoing and gives them a motivation to do so. This case happened when the employees felt that the company or organization owed them when…

two-week notice of losing his job. Help on live television is turned into an outrageous attempt to increase ratings through exploitation of the ravings of a man who is in obvious need of mental health treatment. Increasing amount of ridiculous rationalizations for such terrible behavior. Considering this film was made in 1976, helps to better understand the message being sent by its writers. The bizarre and twisted plot is an obvious attempt to provoke a strong…

The imaginary beast is one symbolic figure that Golding implements into Lord of the Flies that exhibits the change in human nature as an individual gets farther away from civilization. Most of the boys suppose that there is a terrifying beast on the island due to the physical forms they have seen such as the dead parachutist and believe that it remains hidden in the ocean during the day and emerges only at night. The majority of them believe in this idea, except Simon. "What I mean is . . .…

The Progressives saw expansion of governmental powers in wartime as an opportunity to reform American society and to establish national unity as well as expanding social justice. Economic Rationalization is one of the ideas they had in order to reform the American society. By doing this they wanted spirit of the nation’s unity, purpose as well as social justice to all be up to par. Another way that they reformed the American society is by federal powers and increasing the presence in the daily…

Memo to Don Parcell FFB Situation Briefly, First Fidelity had been growing up for the past 30 years, changed by reorganisations, acquisitions, and mergers. As a large corporation, it has been called First Fidelity Bancorporation (FFB) after major expansion in 1980s. However, FFB’s performance was decreasing during late 1980s, where stock price was dropping below its book value. Historically, there was also a large asset write off during 1989. Knowing these problems, management team was all…

Five theories of the psychological perspective that fit into my life are repression, regression, compensation, rationalization and positive reinforcement. According to Aect, “The psychological perspective is the result of a synthesis of cognitive and behavioral psychology theories “(Krendl, Ware, Reid, &Warren, 2003). In essence, it would be how your mind responds to different situations. Repression I tend to repress feelings of guilt over the death of my grandmother. Repression is portrayed…