Discussion Questions A) Where do you see sociocentrism at work in your own think
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Discussion Questions
A) Where do you see sociocentrism at work in your own thinking or the thinking of those around you? Why is sociocentrism detrimental to critical reasoning?
B) As you think about your personal goals and aspirations, what cognitive fallacies outlined by Wilke and Mata (2012) might impede your growth? What active steps might you take to recognize and combat such fallacious forms of thinking?
like to Wilke and Mata (2012)
https://adweb.clarkson.edu/~awilke/Research_files/EoHB_Wilke_12.pdf
Explanation / Answer
A) Sociocentric thought is the native human tendency to see the world from a narrow and biased group-centered perspective, to operate within the world through subjective and partial group beliefs, group influences, group rules, group think, group interests. I see socio centric thinking in me,in terms of woring with people of my own team and with no one else,since I believe the new people in my team would not understand how we work and how we take our decisions.In others also I see this biasness towards people whom they are more comfortable working in a group and share the same thought process and ideas.And also I see myself holding biased opinions about certain people in team,and dont really consider their opinion,since I know their ideas wont make a difference,so whatever decision is taken,is agreed by the group. Also I see this uncritical tendency to select self-serving positive descriptions of themselves and negative descriptions of those who think differently from us. Critical thinking is the “objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.” Without the skill or ability to think critically, we stay in, or revert to, ego-centric and socio-centric thinking. The major barrier to our ability to reason well through diversity issues is our native sociocentrism. We naturally operate within the world from our own perspective, and that perspective is often oriented toward self-serving interests. Thus, if to get what we want we must discriminate against other people, our egocentric viewpoint easily enables us to rationalize or justify our actions. Due to our egocentric mode of thinking, which begins at birth, we come to believe that whatever we believe is true because we believe it. Moreover, we are creatures of mental habit and naturally defend what we already believe. These rigid habits of thought keep us from seeing things from differing perspectives, leading to prejudice in favor of people or groups whose ideas are like our own and against those whose ideas are unlike our own (or who seem different from us in some way). Thus, humans are not only naturally egocentric but sociocentric as well. We tend to be clannish, and to believe that the groups we belong to are right, privileged, special. Through systematic self-deception we maintain our rigid modes of thinking, avoid recognition of our biases, and treat people and groups without due consideration and respect, even when there is ready evidence to refute our point of view. Sociocentric thinking is a hallmark of an uncritical society. It can be diminished only when replaced by cross-cultural, fairminded thinking – critical thinking in the strong sense. Due to time limit,remaining questions can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation