Exam 4 Flashcards
What is the critical theory of organizations and communication rooted in?
Karl Marx
Who tied the idea of the critical theory of organizations and communication with multinational corporations
Stanley Deetz
What are multinational corporations?
Dominant force in society
How are multinational corporations more powerful than churches?
in their influence over individuals
What decreases as big companies move in?
Standard of living
Who was known for studying the rhetoric?
Aristotle
Who was Socrates’ student that rejected the idea of rhetoric?
Plato
What did Plato support in place of the rhetoric?
dialectic
Who was the student of Plato that restored interest in rhetoric?
Aristotle
Why were dialectics critical of rhetorics?
the sophits
What were the Sophits
itinerant teachers
dialectic focuses on what?
- Dialogue
- Conversation
- one on one
What was Deetz critical of as a system?
managerialism
What is the problem with managerialism?
other people may or may not have freedom of expression but they definitely don’t have a voice
What was Deetz not critical of
Capitalism
Deetz thinks that other people called ___ should have a voice.
stakeholders
What are stakeholders
Decisions effect them
Who are stakeholders?
- All workers
- Consumers
- Suppliers
- Investors (stock holders)
- Host community
- Greater Society and world community
What is forensic speaking?
- in a courtroom
- Based on things of the past
- Based on evidence
- Innocence or guilt
What is epideictic speaking?
- Based on the present
- Praise of blame
- Eulogies
What is deliberative speaking?
- Based on the future
- Should, should not
- Based on policy
What is rhetoric?
-persuasion
What is specific in Rhetoric?
practical issues
What is rhetoric concerned with?
which argument will work for which audience
