cial structures have developed. His way of using the term is important because it is not absolute. That is, he uses it to imply a whole range of complex issues that are not limited to but do include the development of the scriptural response to human experience.
For Weber, rationality is that invisible force, process, and (most important) attitude whereby a society moves away from impulses, superstition, and emotion that probably cannot be controlled by mankind and toward social structure and organization that can be controlled by man. Whenever a rational attitude is at work, so is a practical response to irrationality and a movement toward an organized and orderly society. Or at least, so is a movement toward a thinkable society. This is explained by Gerth and Mills:
The principle of rationalization is the most general element in Weber's philosophy of history. For the ri
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