1) Account 2) Codification 3) Excuse 4) Formalisation 5) Formalization 6) Rationalisation 7) Reorganization 8) Systematisation 9) Systematization
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[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 calculate that which is necessary to attain a goal. I...
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[making excuses] In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and supe...
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[sociology] In sociology, rationalization refers to the replacement of traditions, values, and emotions as motivators for behavior in society with rational, calculated ones. For example, the implementation of bureaucracies in government is a kind of rationalization, as is the construction of high-efficiency living spaces in architecture and...
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• (n.) The act or process of rationalizing.
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(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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(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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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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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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(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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defense mechanism in which an attempt is made to explain in a logical way affects, ideas or wishes t
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Ra`tion·al·i·za'tion (răsh`ŭn*
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noun The act or process of rationalizing.
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The method of adding a self-ID and auto-calibration feature to the transducer.
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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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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 rad...
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rationalisation noun the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
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(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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(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 support or improved interoperability, and greater co....
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A defense mechanism that involves using incorrect but self-serving explanations to justify unacceptable behavior, thoughts, or feelings.
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[SAT terms] a defense mechanism explaining actions in non-threateningly
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