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Rationality and change

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The criterion of rationality involves submitting decisions and actions to constant calculative research and produces a continuous drive towards change

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Tradition

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We do this because it is the way it has always been done

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Instrumental rationality

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We must work out the most efficient means of achieving this end

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Social division of labour

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The allocation of work tasks at the level of society, typically into trades

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Technical division of labour

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Task specialisation within an occupation or broad work task

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