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 and Lyon argue the old dread of never being unobserved has flipped into the hope of never again being alone.

2. 2 Medium

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

   Answer: ambivalence

   Why: He described the drive for order as a fight of determination against ambiguity, of transparency against obscurity, of clarity against fuzziness.

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: He built on Simmel, whose 1908 figure is the man who comes today and stays, and added that such a person threatens the very possibility of sociation.

6. 6 Hard

   What role does the state primarily take in liquid modernity?

   Answer: Guardian of personal safety

   Why: Bauman calls liquid modern states nation states turned local police precincts, left guarding law and order while global capital roams beyond their reach.