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Iron cage, an Uncommon card
In sociology, the iron cage is a concept introduced by Max Weber to describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life, particularly in Western capitalist societies.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The "iron cage" thus traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control.
- Weber also described the bureaucratization of social order as "the polar night of icy darkness".
- The original German term is stahlhartes Gehäuse, this was translated into "iron cage", an expression made familiar to English-speakers by Talcott Parsons in his 1930 translation of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Iron cage article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Iron cage
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Iron cage (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aura Hertwig, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
