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Closely related to logical control, this focuses on the application of "rationality" as a governing principle for social organization and individual behavior. It examines systems (like bureaucracies or economic models) that claim to optimize human activity based on cost-benefit analysis and instrumental reason, often at the expense of human values, ethics, and spontaneity. Control is achieved by making everything subject to a cold calculus of efficiency.
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