GRADED WORK: Iron Cage Post (Included in Student Logistics Grade) A
"Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in
eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which
escape calculation." Max Weber
Weber argued that modern values, structures and processes that priortize efficiency, predictability and
rationalization will result in people being trapped in a world of sameness, which he considered the iron
cage. For this post:
. watch the following video and summarize Weber's argument regarding the key factor in transitioning
to modernity (1 paragraph)
• explain an example of the iron cage in your world by describing how it traps people symbolically (1
paragraph)
• attach a picture that represents the iron cage structure (photo may be from your real world or may be
an image from the internet)
•. due date: Friday, Septmeber 9th by 11:59pm
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Link to Weber Video (Opens a new window)
CC Max Weber & Modernity: Crash Course Sociology #9
CRASH COURSE SOCIOLOGY
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