Zygmunt Bauman quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Why do modern people willingly surrender their privacy online?

   Answer: Fear of exclusion

   Why: Bauman writes in Liquid Surveillance that the fear of disclosure has been stifled by the joy of being noticed.

2. 2 Medium

   Bauman claimed that modern society seeks to eliminate which uncomfortable feeling?

   Answer: ambivalence

   Why: He called modernity another name for the struggle against ambiguity, yet argued it kept producing the very ambiguity it tried to destroy.

3. 3 Hard

   How does globalization produce what Bauman calls wasted humans?

   Answer: Economic redundancy

   Why: Bauman argued the planet has run out of the empty places to which earlier centuries exported their surplus populations.

4. 4 Easy

   What must people trade away to gain absolute security according to Bauman?

   Answer: Freedom

   Why: He inverted Freud, for whom modern people gave this up in exchange for security and order, arguing that the liquid modern bargain now runs the other way.

5. 5 Medium

   How does Bauman describe people who are neither friends nor enemies?

   Answer: Strangers

   Why: Drawing on Simmel's 1908 essay The Stranger, Bauman saw the stranger as a source of fear, since he cannot be controlled or ordered.

6. 6 Hard

   What role does the state primarily take in liquid modernity?

   Answer: Guardian of personal safety

   Why: Bauman described the welfare state as a collective insurance policy against misfortune, a promise he said states were dropping.