Look up: rationalization

1. Rationalization
   A concept used by Weber to refer to the process by which modes of precise calculation and organization, involving abstract rules and procedures, increasingly come to dominate the social world.
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2. rationalization
   [n] - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening 2. [n] - the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason 3. [n] - (mathematics) the simplificati...
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3. Rationalization
   The method of adding a self-ID and auto-calibration feature to the transducer.
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4. rationalization
   2)the provision of a reason to justify an act which is in fact determined by some process other than reason Category: Medicine
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5. Rationalization
   Ra`tion·al·i·za'tion (răsh`ŭn* a l*ĭ*zā'shŭn) noun The act or process of rationalizing.
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6. rationalization
   A defense mechanism operating unconsciously, in which the individual attempts to justify or make consciously tolerable, by plausible means, feelings, behaviour, and motives that would otherwise be intolerable. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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7. rationalization
   rationalisation noun the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
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8. rationalization
   rationalisation noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
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9. rationalization
   (ră″shәn-әl-ĭ-za´shәn) a type of defense mechanism in which a person finds logical reasons (justification) for his or her behavior while ignoring the real reasons. It is a form of self-deception unconsciously used to make tolerable certain feelings, behaviors, and motives that would oth...
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10. Rationalization
    • (n.) The act or process of rationalizing.
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11. rationalization
    (from the article `defense mechanism`) 7. Rationalization is the substitution of a safe and reasonable explanation for the true (but threatening) cause of behaviour....or activities believed to allow the individual to keep his distressing, repressed impulses from his own awareness. Thus his reasoning may be ... ...dream at all. Freud fu...
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12. rationalization
    (from the article `organizational analysis`) ...`rational-legal` authority, observing that rights of control increasingly derived from expertise rather than lineage. He documented the ways in ...
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13. rationalization
    rationalization, in psychology: see defense mechanism.
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14. Rationalization
    (Lat. rationalis, from ratio, reason) A psychological term to describe the mind's fabrication of rational argument to justify conduct of which one is really ashamed. -- L.W.
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15. rationalization
    Type: Term Pronunciation: rash′un-ăl-i-zā′shŭn Definitions: 1. A postulated psychoanalytic defense mechanism through which irrational behavior, motives, or feelings are made to appear reasonable.
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16. Rationalization
    (DOD) Any action that increases the effectiveness of allied forces through more efficient or effective use of defense resources committed to the alliance. Rationalization includes consolidation, reassignment of national priorities to higher alliance needs, standardization, specialization, mutual sup...
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17. Rationalization
    (economics) In economics, `rationalization` is an attempt to change a pre-existing ad hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of published rules. There is a tendency in modern times to quantify experience, knowledge, and work. Means-end (goal-oriented) rationality is used to precisely ca...
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18. Rationalization
    (making excuses) In psychology and logic, `rationalization` (or `making excuses`) is a defense mechanism in which perceived controversial behaviors or feelings are explained in a rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation. It often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ran...
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19. Rationalization
    (sociology) `Rationalization` (or `rationalisation`) is a term used in sociology to refer to the process where an increasing number of social actions become based on considerations of teleological efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from morality, emotion, custom, or ...
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