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Disenchantment
In
social science
,
disenchantment
is the cultural
rationalization
and devaluation of
mysticism
apparent in modern society. The concept was borrowed from
Friedrich Schiller
by
Max Weber
to describe the character of
modernized
,
bureaucratic
,
secularized
Western society
, where scientific understanding is more highly valued than belief, and where processes are oriented toward rational goals, as opposed to
traditional society
where for Weber "the world remains a great enchanted garden".
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