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:

Pathology Present

The state in which a disease or abnormal condition is actively manifesting in a body or sample.

Digestive

Pertains to the biological system in organisms responsible for breaking down food into nutrients and waste.

Esophagus

The muscular tube that moves food from the throat to the stomach.

Sphincter

A ring-like muscle that controls the passage of substances through an opening in the body, such as the anus or esophagus.