What does Max Weber mean when he says that modern people are trapped in an "iron cage"?
A. More and more people live under totalitarian dictators and so lose basic rights and freedoms.
B. Increasingly, we live and work in smaller and smaller physical locations, as if crammed in a cage.
C. Increasingly, modern society has more laws and uses them to incarcerate more people in prison.
D. Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled through rigid rules and rationalization.
Answer: D. Most aspects of life are increasingly controlled through rigid rules and rationalization.
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In your answer note how health and illness relate to education, income, race, and ethnicity in the U.S. What will be an ideal response?
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a. widespread alienation from politics on the part of people who are dissatisfied but doubt that voting will make a difference. b. indifference of people who are fairly satisfied with the way things are. c. how uneducated our population is. d. the fact that voting is not required by law in the United States.
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A. equalitarian norms B. patrilocal norms C. matrilocal norms D. neolocal norms
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a. the United States. b. China. c. Japan. d. Russia.