Aporije Weberove teorije racionaliziranja
The Apories of Weber's Theory of Rationalisation

Summary/Abstract: In Weber's sense, rationalisation appears as an essential problem of the interpretation of activity, i.e. as a sociological problem. His analyses, however, comprise a dual interpretation of the concept of rationalisation. The first is expounded in the Protestant Ethics, though also indicated by reference in the Economy and Society, and contextualized by the basically simple thesis that all economic rationalisation of the exchange economy leads to a disruption of tradition. Apparently simple, this interpretation will be differently understood (as illustrated by the way In which Habermas interprets Weber's concept of rationalisation as modernisation based on the capitalist model: or Marcuse's interpretation in the sense of industrialisation). The second interpretation of rationalisation is put forward in the Economy and Society, where the model of rationalisation is traced back to medieval canonic but also to modern natural law. The analysis of Weber’s concept of rationalisation considers primarily the legal-sociological aspect but refers also to some consequences of his idea for Weber’s position in general.

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