SOC 124 Lecture Notes - Critical Thinking, Money Supply, Montagu Norman, 1St Baron Norman
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Institutional perspective: the institutional perspective developed the concept of an organizational field bound to a collection of interdependent organizations operating with common rules, norms, and meaning systems. Our class objective: we will use american society as the organizational field to understand how people within the american organizational field are bound by a collection of interdependent institutions operating with common rules, norms, and meaning systems. Ideas under review: dominance of dialectic: the art or practice of arriving at the truth by disclosing the contradictions in an opponent"s argument and overcoming them, corporations and foundations, control of money supply. Critical thinking as a solution: critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it. The elements of thought: point of view: frames of reference, perspectives, orientations, purpose: goals, objectives, question at issue: problem, issue. Interpretation and inference: conclusions, solutions: concepts: theories, definitions, laws, principles, models, assumptions: presuppositions, axioms, taking for granted.
