Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized

Evidence

From the organization’s point of view, morally inspired conduct is utterly useless, nay subversive: it cannot be harnessed to any purpose and it sets limits to the hope of monotony. Since it cannot be rationalized, morality must be suppressed, or manipulated into irrelevance. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611

Categorization

• XREF: Direct mechanism for how bureaucratic rationality enables mass exclusion — the reader’s core learning goal. — connects to: Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612; Moral obligation need not be logical to be valid — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 585; Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 502 (+1 more)

Related

• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.91)
• Rationality alone cannot measure organizational proficiency once moral criteria are excluded. (similarity 0.86)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.86)
• Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically. (similarity 0.85)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.83)
• Social organization neutralizes morality by making action adiaphoric, neither good nor evil (similarity 0.81)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.81)
• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.81)
• Rationalized social relationships increase the efficiency of producing inhumanity (similarity 0.81)
• Non-objective moral ideas serve as harmless social cohesion because they never disturb business (similarity 0.81)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.81)
• Rationalized social organization structurally enables cruelty by mediating responsibility (similarity 0.80)
• Institutional evil requires a social psychology of how settings override members’ moral scruples (similarity 0.80)
• Moral obligation need not be logical to be valid (similarity 0.79)
• Rationality of the actor and of the action can diverge, making reason self-destructive. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612
• Moral obligation need not be logical to be valid #qualifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 585