What Does Max Weber Mean When He Says That Modern

question 147

Multiple Choice

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

• A) Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled through rigid rules and rationalization.
• B) Increasingly, we live and work in smaller and smaller physical locations, as if crammed in a cage.
• C) More and more people live under totalitarian dictators and so lose basic rights and freedoms.
• D) Increasingly, modern society has more laws and uses them to incarcerate more people in prison.
• E) The conditions of modern life create a psychic prison that leaves most people discontent with civilization.

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Definitions:

Poly-Substance Abuse

The concurrent misuse or dependence on multiple psychoactive substances, often leading to increased behavioral and health risks.

Anorexia Nervosa

A psychological disorder marked by an extreme fear of gaining weight, leading to significantly restricted food intake and often excessive weight loss.

Milieu

The physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops; environment.

Pica

A disorder characterized by the persistent ingestion of non-nutritive substances, such as dirt or paper, not typical for one's age or culture.