Technological rationality is a philosophical idea postulated by Herbert Marcuse in his 1941 article, "Some Implications of Modern Technology", published first in the journal Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences, Vol. IX. It gained mainstream repute and a more holistic treatment in his 1964 book One-Dimensional Man.
It posits that rational decisions to incorporate technological advances into society can, once the technology is ubiquitous, change what is considered rational within that society.
An idea created out of the Frankfurt School by Marcuse who coined the term 'technological rationality' in his 1964 book One-Dimensional man. It describes a system that he believed was fundamentally irrational in that it operates on the basis of creating false need. This produces 'The Happy Consciousness', the belief that the real is rational and that the system produces the goods.
|
Technology
|
|
- Outline of technology
- Outline of applied science
|
|
| Fields |
|
|
| Components |
- Infrastructure
- Invention
- Knowledge
- Machine
- Skill
- Tool
|
|
| History |
- Prehistoric technology
- Neolithic Revolution
- Ancient technology
- Medieval technology
- Renaissance technology
- Industrial Revolution
- Jet Age
- Digital Revolution
- Information Age
|
|
Theories and
concepts |
- Appropriate technology
- Critique of technology
- Diffusion of innovations
- Disruptive innovation
- Dual-use technology
- Ephemeralization
- Ethics of technology
- High tech
- Hype cycle
- Inevitability thesis
- Low-technology
- Mature technology
- Philosophy of technology
- Strategy of Technology
- Technicism
- Techno-progressivism
- Technocapitalism
- Technocentrism
- Technocracy
- Technocriticism
- Technoetic
- Technological change
- Technological convergence
- Technological determinism
- Technological escalation
- Technological evolution
- Technological fix
- Technological innovation system
- Technological momentum
- Technological nationalism
- Technological rationality
- Technological revival
- Technological singularity
- Technological somnambulism
- Technological utopianism
- Technology lifecycle
- Technology acceptance model
- Technology adoption lifecycle
- Technorealism
- Transhumanism
|
|
| Other |
- Emerging technologies
- Fictional technology
- High-technology business districts
- Kardashev scale
- List of technologies
- Science and technology by country
- Technology alignment
- Technology assessment
- Technology brokering
- Technology companies
- Technology demonstration
- Technology education
- Technical universities and colleges
- Technology evangelist
- Technology governance
- Technology integration
- Technology journalism
- Technology management
- Technology shock
- Technology strategy
- Technology and society
- Technology transfer
|
|
- Book
- Category
- Commons
- Portal
- Wikiquotes
|
|
|
This sociology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
|
|
This technology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
|