Week 3 - Blog 1: Ch 5 – Social Trends
It is interesting to consider how scientific advancement has changed and altered the social trends of the world. Although science has made life easier and more productive, it has also created huge inequalities between race, religion, and gender. These inequalities not only produced tension in America, but world wide between countries that have sparked a few wars (pg. 135). Science and new ideology was meant to create a “more progressive and rational society” (pg. 134), yet we came closer to destroying humanity due to the fact that weapons of mass destruction were now capable of being produced by some of the most sinister men in the world. Even with a more open communication technology like radio and television, this sparked ideological battles between capitalism, socialism, and feudal wars with communism. People, citizens of other countries, were now able to see that the grass is greener on the other side, so to speak, and revolutions took place.
I believe that, even though the change in social trends was not well received at first, it evolved the world into a more sophisticated dynamic whereas we are now able to communicated directly with one another and eradicate confusion. That “ideology” that was so sought after with this new social trend was not fully realized until after the 1960’s, where new perspectives of world peace came about only after war had changed people’s minds.
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I think it is interesting to note that most things in the world have this good/bad dichotomy. One thing that I like about our text book is that Eisenberg et. al do a good job about presenting both the positive benefits and negative drawbacks of most of the things they write about including globalization and the balance between creativity and constraint.
ReplyDeleteWithin the organizational setting I have found that this dichotomy is very present, and I would argue, necessary. For example, it is important that managers give both positive and negative feedback. Although I think any employee would rather hear positive feedback, and managers would rather give it, negative feedback is crucial to the growth of a company and its employees.