Wall of Barriers Activity: Identify Sociocentric Thinking in the News
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Identify Sociocentric Thinking in the News
Read the sections on Sociocentrism in the Thinker’s Guide to the Human Mind . See the table of contents for this section. Also read in The Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias and Propaganda . Then locate at least one news article containing evidence of sociocentric thinking on the part of some group.
Complete these statements:
1. The article I identified is entitled...
2. A brief summary of the article is as follows...
3. The sociocentric thinking depicted in this article is as follows...
4. If this group had not been thinking sociocentrically, and instead had been thinking rationally, they would have behaved in the following way...



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