What Did Max Weber Mean When He Said That Modern

question 38

Multiple Choice

What did Max Weber mean when he said that modern people are trapped in an "iron cage"?

• A) Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled by rigid rules and rationalization.
• B) More and more people live under totalitarian dictators and therefore lose their basic rights and freedoms.
• C) Increasingly, modern society has more laws and it uses them to put more people in prison.
• D) The conditions of modern life create a psychic prison that leaves most people discontent with civilization.

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