Exam 2: The Critical Approach

Discursive closure extends the ways in which people can think, feel, experience, speak, and act in their organizations.

According to Marx, capitalism would naturally evolve into socialism.

For the most part, organizations do not exercise power coercively but engage in unobtrusive control.

The term used to describe a great deal of neo-Marxist theory and research based on the ideas of the Frankfurt School is ______.

Karl Marx did not celebrate capitalism because of the exploitive nature. The ______ economic system or mode of ownership was free from exploitation.

According to cultural studies, popular culture, which includes phenomena such as movies based on comic books or the music of Brittney Spears, is a source of serious objects of study.

According to the Frankfurt School, how we see reality depends on the ideas of those who control the means of production. In other words, the ruling material force in society is the ruling intellectual force.

The spread of corporate ideologies and discourses to every aspect of our lives, including who we are as human beings, has been labeled ______.

______ defined culture as experienced lived, experienced interpreted, and experience defined.

McDonaldization, the term used to describe the proliferation of prepackaged, instant, easily consumable products and lifestyles, would be associated most closely with which one of the following concepts?

Frankfurt School members were most concerned about the growing dominance of which type of reasoning?

Analysis through historical materialism looks at the shifts in property ownership and class relationships.

Nintendogs is a Nintendo game in which you take care of, train, and bond with an adorable (virtual) puppy. The availability of everything, including virtual puppy ownership, to be bought and sold is a property of capitalism called ______.

The work of ______ is a common thread that runs through all the variations of the critical approach.

______ is a system of attitudes, beliefs, ideas, perceptions, and values that structure reality.

The idea that the nature of society is causally determined by its economic foundation is called ______.

According to the critical perspective, organizations are ______.

Common sense thinking can often reflect ______.

The approach that explores the ways in which economics, culture, and politics interact to create social reality is called Marxism.

Organizations that value collective power share the decision-making responsibilities.