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What did max weber mean by iron cage of rationality?

April 26, 2017cage iron Max mean rationality Weber

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What did max weber mean by iron cage of rationality?

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Whereas centuries past consisted of ‘value-rational’ action (action that was valuable to the actor inandfor itself), modernity for the most part consists of ‘instrumental rational action’ (where we act towards the ends of employers and institutions). This loss of autonomy and agency leaves us wholly unfulfilled and trapped in an ‘Iron Cage’.