To summarize, the irony with which Weber accounted for rationalization was driven by the deepening tension between modernity and modernization.
Baron's vast and only partly realized program to establish the Italian humanist tradition as a major source of modernity was deliberately juxtaposed to yet another tendency in German scholarship that sought the roots of modernity and modernization in Protestantism.
Another criterion that could be used to define the School is an essentially ambivalent attitude toward Western modernity (or toward modernization as Westernization).
In concrete terms, this means that Habermas develops a two-level social theory that includes an analysis of communicative rationality, the rational potential built into everyday speech, on the one hand; and a theory of modern society and modernization, on the other (White 1989).
Weber's problem with modernity originates from the fact that it required a historically unique constellation of cultural values and social institutions, and yet, modernization has effectively undermined the cultural basis for modern individualism and its germinating ground of disciplinary society, which together had given the original impetus to modernity.
Sociologically, then, one can understand modern law as a functional solution to the conflict potentials inherent in modernization.
Boiled down to its essentials, however, the argument links his discourse theory with an analysis of the demands inherent in modern legal systems, which Habermas understands in light of the history of Western modernization.
Public administration is in urgent need of modernization, and public resources must be used more efficiently.
The young athletes and thousands of young Russian volunteers whom the IOC President praised for their contribution to the games are the real face of the new Russia that wants peaceful and gradual modernization.
But according to what airline officials are telling Bloomberg's Mary Schlangenstein, that design might not last much longer:"We have made a decision to embark on a modernization of our brand," Chief Commercial Officer Virasb Vahidi said in an interview.
He has shown himself adept at selling a big strategic vision of economic modernization to a nation that had lost its way.
