Rationalization

The movie traces the life of a family after their eldest daughter is diagnosed with leukemia. The family’s 11 year old, Anna Fitzgerald, was born by means of in vitro fertilization to be a genetic match to her leukemic sister Kate. When Kate’s condition gets worse, and she goes into renal failure; Anna knowing that her parents will force her to donate her kidney, hires a lawyer and sues them for “medical emancipation”. Their mother, Sara, who used to be a lawyer proceeds to go to court in order…

neuroscientists, Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, has written, ‘Our mental life is governed mainly by a cauldron of emotions, motives and desires which we are barely conscious of, and what we call our conscious life is usually an elaborate post hoc rationalization of things we really do for other reasons’” (Gore 28). Gore’s chosen quote reveals the irrational nature of the human mind, pointing out how people cannot control or…

mechanisms in methods that people protect their egos for reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. While reading this chapter, I was able to open up and realize why individuals hide from their stress and avoid it through displacement, rationalization, projection,…

comprising three interdependent levels: Artifacts, espoused beliefs and values, and underlying assumptions. Artifacts delineate perceptible structures and processes of an organization, while espoused beliefs and values are aspirations for and rationalizations of future organizational behavior (Schein, 2004). Lastly, underlying assumptions constitute “unconscious, taken-for-granted beliefs, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings” (Schein, 2004, p. 26). While artifacts and espoused beliefs and values…

The informational and the intimate discusses the ideas of cyborgs and different identities and how we sometimes get lost within the internet from seeing whats real and what isn’t. We are constantly seeing people change on the internet with different personalities. They are behind the screen and no one can see who they really are. The social material production of new media discusses the social and different issues within the world of technology. I chose to focuses in on two different articles…

The topic of the death penalty has been considered a controversial issue for over two hundred years. Numerous public figures, world leaders, and renowned philosophers have made their opinions and theories known; yet, there is no universally accepted answer to whether or not capital punishment is morally and lawfully permissible. Despite hundreds of years of discrepancies, philosophers John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant seem to agree with many aspects of the death penalty. Through the…

Groupthink is a term made popular by a social psychologist, named Irving Janis, in 1972. Groupthink occurs when a group of people decides based on what the other group members decide instead of each member deciding true to their own opinions or beliefs. The reason that groupthink occurs is that the members of the group feel pressure to agree or to avoid conflict within the group. Groups affected by groupthink often make poor decisions and do not explore the many other alternatives that may be…

Male aggression against females and male aggression against males shows us considerable variation among the primates. In many primates, the aggression is rare, mild, or limited and in some cases, it can get violent and cause huge fights with serious injuries. They are so many theories that involve in the evolution of violence. Darwin’s theory of natural selection argued that violent behavior in species just like other physical characteristics passed on to the future generations. How these traits…

wisest minstrel, into believing that he is some sort of emissary of God, and all of the minstrels believe him and beg for their lives as the pogrom is about to begin again. Wiesel incorporates this in the book to remind people the dangers of rationalization of the Holocaust and that what we must never forget is the human suffering that was caused. In God on Trial we have almost the reverse, on of the “36”, righteous men who are credited with the world existing in their merit,…

The ideals of our contemporary society vastly differs from the early settlers almost 400 years ago. America became refuge for those seeking political and religious sovereignty. Many of these immigrants scattered across the east coast, one of those groups being the Pilgrims. The Mayflower originally bounded for Virginia swept to Massaschusetts shore due to heavy storms. To main order and establish a governing body, the Mayflower Compact was crafted. This assured the creation a community bounded…