Look up: rationalization

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   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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   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 simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation 4. [n] - the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
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   Rationalization
   The method of adding a self-ID and auto-calibration feature to the transducer.
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   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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   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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   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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   rationalization
   rationalisation noun the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
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   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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   Rationalization
   `Rationalization` can refer to more than one thing: *Rationalization in psychology is the process of constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process. *Rationalization in hypnosis is the rational justification for obeying a suppressed post-hypnotic command. *Rationalization in economics is an attempt to change a pre-existing ad-hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of pub...
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    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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    Rationalization
    • (n.) The act or process of rationalizing.
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    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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    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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    rationalization
    rationalization, in psychology: see defense mechanism.
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    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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