Introduction
Humans are social beings and everything in the lives of humans revolves around groups of individuals.
Organizations within a society consist of groups of individuals who collaborate for the achievement of specific goals and a common purpose. Bureaucracy refers to the role of officials who may be directing the affairs of an organization or a social group. The individuals who are part of an organization or social group do not necessarily own the resources of the group or organization. Rationality refers to the reasons for doing things in the way that they are done. Rationality of modern social organization, therefore, refers to the way in which things are done in that organization and the reasons behind this evolution. Principles of rationality in an industrial organization, for instance, will comprise the way that the organization functions in relation to efficiency, calculability, uniformity, and control through automation.
On a wider social perspective of the society, it may be possible to talk about the rationality of culture in the society and this relates to the reasons why individuals and the society behave in certain manner which is related to their culture.
Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas and Max Horkheimer were philosophers of the Frankfurt school and social theorists in the tradition of the critical theory. The Frankfurt School refers to the philosophy that emerged from the Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer became the director of this school in 1930 and had met Theodor Adorno who was to be his intellectual collaborator. Jürgen Habermas was a student of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno at the Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Habermas’s work focuses on the foundations of social theory, the......
