Carl Rogers, The author of the essay “Communication: Its Blocking and its Facilitation”, presents the idea that communication between people today is struggling. Rogers states that the “major factors in blocking or impending communication” is due to “our very natural tendency to judge” other people’s thoughts, ideas, and opinions without ever being in their shoes (419). Rogers goes in depth on the overlaying problems of communication these days but also gives us various ways to help us communicate on a new level of understanding. When communicating with individuals, we must listen and not immediately judge the person. Rogers puts blame on this as one of the biggest reasons for communication breakdown.
In The Indispensable Opposition, Walter Lippman establishes his argument by incorporating logos, hasty generalization, and juxtaposition to provoke readers to view freedom of speech as an essential component that contributes to every man or woman's liberties, rather than as a commonly acknowledged necessity among the individual. Appeals to logic is strongly manipulated to cause readers to recognize how defending the individual's right of expression is related to society's passive tolerance of these rights. Lippman speculates that "the freedom man accords to other men is a matter of toleration," while his or her individual freedoms are a matter of right. This tolerance counteracts the purpose of freedom of speech by generalizing the right as "practical human experience" that should only be addressed when men are deeply and vitally concerned by the topic of discussion. Society claims that their acts of tolerance are acts of self-righteousness, as though we believe that being passive towards others' free speech is selfless and noble.
The origin of social disorganization theory can be traced to the work of Shaw and McKay, who concluded that disorganized areas marked by divergent values and transitional populations produce criminality. Strain theories view crime as resulting from the anger people experience over their inability to achieve legitimate social and economic success. These theories hold that most people share common values and beliefs but the ability to achieve them is differentiated throughout the social structure. The best known strain theory is Merton's, which describes what happens when people have inadequate means to satisfy their needs. Cultural deviance theories hold that a unique value system develops in lower class areas.
Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and Stanley Milgram’s Behavioral Study of Obedience have provoked controversy amongst individuals interested in the study of human psychology. Critics have claimed that both studies were unethical and caused serious harm to the participants. Although both trials were later reviewed by the American Psychological Association and approved, many debates and additional research ensued. The strengths, weaknesses and underlying ethics of both studies still provide ample reason for further examination. Only three months after the start of trials for Adolf Eichmann (a Nazi war criminal), Milgram formulated an experiment to question this dispositional view.
Understanding the Question: Free Will and Determinism Michael Shermer demonstrates in his book, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share and Follow the Golden Rule his remarkable ability to unravel the long-standing questions of morality under scientific scrutiny. One such chapter which makes for a compelling argument not only for Shermer’s view but for his rhetorical ability is chapter four “Master of Fate: Making Moral Choices in a Determined Universe”. Within this chapter Shermer makes strong use of narrative, the historical process in our attempts to understand free will and determinism, the meanings of cause and effects in relation to free will, and several metaphorical, illustrative, and deductive examples to support his argument. Shermer begins the chapter by describing the events of March 30, 1981, in which John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate the United States President Ronald Reagan, to which he later pleaded “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” and the jury agreed (Shermer 105). This introduction narrative sets the tone for the entire chapter and is used repeatedly throughout as the central example in the ongoing problem of the definition between sanity and insanity.
The study of sociology can help one acquire a better understanding of society. In order to grasp this study, theorists have come up with many different theories. The movie The Hunger Games illustrates social conflicts the way theorist Karl Marx explains in his book The Communist Manifesto. In the movie The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross, we are taken to a fictional oligarchy called Panem. The seat of the government is in the Capitol, and they control all twelve poverty stricken districts.
On the whole, by making efficient use of the cyclic archetype of prejudice, the two authors show how people can act so harshly towards one another due to unequal rights. Though the negativity of false assumptions and preconceived notions is highly emphasized, Lee and Hicks also establish that there logical people who look at situations with a clear head. In conclusion, the recurring archetype of prejudice in both works shows the audience that is important to treat everyone fairly because only bad things come out of
Montag chose to love by this passage near the end of the story. He learned that by following his own rules he would be the controller of the outcome in his life. Once he began to demonstrate actions that he felt were acceptable, his personality changed enormously. This story was a perfect example of what may happen when a human is told what to do, instead of having the option of doing what they truly believe they should do. According to John F. Kennedy, “Conformity is jailer of freedom and the enemy of
Some examples of parallelism are “it is substantial, beneficial and indispensable consequences”; and “We are magnanimous, noble, and unselfish”; Lippmann uses parallelism to help the reader develop his main idea by using synonyms so that they can tie together those words and understand what he is proving. This arranges to his sentences being longer, but it also helps refrain Lippmann from being repetitive throughout his essay. Also Lippmann's figurative language helps portray his point when he compares giving away freedom without reason
Compare and contrast: The ghosts of Abu Ghraib and the Stanford prison experiment The ghost of Abu Ghraib, shows Saddam Hussein’s cruelty to his own people. Data about these facts was to be observed. Pictures were provided by soldiers, in these pictures prisoners were forced and shamed. On the other hand, The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted in 1971, professor Philip Zimbardo led this study at Stanford University.