Max Weber
sociologist · 3 mentions across 3 readings
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Max Weber appears here as a theoretical touchstone for understanding rationalization, standardization, and bureaucratic systems—the organizational logics that enable both industrial manufacturing (standardized components, protocols) and the concentration of capital and power. The course readings invoke Weber's framework to trace how rationalization has evolved from industrial production into cybernetic and computational systems, where standardization extends from physical specifications to immaterial data structures and governance models. His concept of bureaucratic rationality thus becomes essential for theorizing how contemporary AI and algorithmic systems reproduce and intensify the power dynamics Weber identified in early 20th-century capitalism.
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