General Slides for
SOC120
Fall 2005
Week 5
(Study Guide edited 3/09/10)
Class Outline
Chapt Study Guide
More Rhetoric through Pictures
Bush's mystery bulge. The rumor flying around the
globe after the first debate in fall of 04. Was the
president wired during the first debate?
Check this—What is the problem?
Foley
Week 5:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
8.
9.
10.
Continue Magazine exercise Criteria to compare W5 S6
Review C4: Euphemisms, Dysphemisms, Rhetorical (a)
comparisons (b) definitions, (c) explanations, Innuendo, Loaded
Questions, Weaslers (Scientific writing), Downplayers, Horse
laugh/ridicule/sarcasm, hyperbole, proof surrogate, persuasive
comparison, sarcasm (stereotype), Subway napkin exercise
Repeat errors in writing spelling, grammar, redundancy, complexity
(pedantic), prolixity (verbose or wordy), ambiguity (syntactic and/or
semantic), Fallacy of division, Fallacy of composition, comparisons,
vagueness, writing and diversity
Review A03 W5S7—Due one class before Midterm –Study method
for C5 and 6 (W5 S7 and list of fallacies W5 S12)
C5 Study Groups—outline your own study list
Internet search with laptops “Review Search Basics” + Boolean
logic with a search topic on “chocolate”
- Search for a web page with info about class debate issues
- Share sites and search method
- Start web site credibility criteria
Evaluate credibility exercise with laptops
HB Part I Debate project and discuss Assignment: Part II Debate
Project
Quiz C5
W5 S8—
miss
class
Rhet
Pict
Radio
W4S3
OJ
W4S4
*Bush
W5S4
*Paul
Harvey
W5S2/3
*Relativi
sm
W5S14
1st Slide
Jim’s Writing Error on Quiz
___10, 11. [Can not omit--2 points] On the
back (a) In most if not all scientific journal
articles there will be sections discussing the
limits of the findings. In terms of chapter 4
what are these types of statements called
(e.g. "our study can not be generalized to
women since only men were included in the
study", since our sample has a very small
number of Native Americans we are
hesitant to make any conclusions about this
group)? (b) Is this considered an acceptable
use of this type of statement?
What are the errors, rewrite the question eliminating the
errors, what is the correct answer.
Format for each Fallacy A03
Fallacy Name
Definition (your words not copy)
Example (yours not just copy)
Exception (yours not just copy)
Alphabetical list of all fallacies discussed chapter 1-6
Hanging paragraphs (see above)
List the term Fallacy define and give an example first on list
Due: Class before Midterm
A Critical Thinking Problem
You have a paper due for today’s class
and it is not done.
What does a critical thinker think/do?
CT Thoughts
Many students would choose to skip class
In most cases that is an unwise action
a.
b.
c.
How much do you loose if it is late?
You may learn more about how to write the paper in
class.
You will miss new material if you skip class making
you further behind.
Further typical student actions that may
create difficulties
a.
b.
c.
Skipping the first day of class
Skipping the day after a test
Skipping the last day of class
CT Thoughts
Two ways:
Three ways:
If loving you is wrong I don’t want to be right.
A.
C5 Terms: Make your own study outline C5 and C6 F06
E. Rationalizing [p153b]
Fallacy Def/Ex [When structure
F. Everyone knows [p154b]
acceptable]
Pseudoreasoning [p146t]
---Two ways to commit a fallacy [p146t]
B.
C.
D.
E.
Argument from popularity [154b]
2 exceptions [p156t]
CT action to this type argument [p156m]
(1) make a fallacious argument
(2) accept a fallacious argument.
Argument from common practice [pa56b]
Overall fallacy(s) p150-162
G. Subjectivism
Smokescreen
“Moral value judgements”
Red herring
“ethics,”[p157b]
“Argument” from outrage [p147m] H. Relativism [p158]
“The Limbaugh fallacy” [p146b]
What is illogical…[p158b]
Two ways to become illogical [p147t]
I. Two Wrongs [p159b]
Scare tactics [p148b]
Exception? Retributivism [p159b]
“Argument” by force [p148b]
Gandi
Other fallacies based on emotion
WWII Atomic bomb?
“argument” from pity [p150m]
“argument from envy/ jealousy/ pride J. Red herring
Apple polishing [p151]
K. Smokescreen
Guilt trip [p151b]
Our class position [p162t]
Wishful thinking [p151b]
Genus not species
Positive thinking [p152m]
From chapter 1-4 division, composition
“If you only believe..”
Peer Pressure [p152b]
Group think [p153t]
All fallacies for C1-C6 study for final
group identification [p153t]
Nationalism [p153t]
Underlined required for A03
“blame America first” [p152m]
1st Slide
Pre Quiz C5
1. Define “fallacy” (understandable to a student in
the hall)
2. ________Name one fallacy in the text
(a) Define the fallacy
(b) Give an example of the fallacy
(c) Give an exception to the fallacy (same structure and
premise but not a fallacy)
Class Members will make their own
study guide outline for Chapter 5!
Pre quiz—8:10
I will visit around and look at
your study guides
Issues for Critical
Thought
Fall 2002
What is the issue?
The Executive Branch of the U.S.
government maintains that it has the right to
determine who are citizens and should
enjoy the rights of the constitution and who
are “enemy combatants”?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/columns/fl.ramasastry.detainees/
(2) Morality/deviance is highly varied Subjectivism & cultural
relativism. These may indeed be “true for you but not for me.”
-place
-time
-actor
-situation
Arabs hashish ok, alcohol no; Hindus beef no
Muslims & Jews pork no; Eskimos sex hospitality ok
Opium in 1900 ok; marihuana 1930's "Reefer Madness"
marihuana 60's 0k; marihuana 1992 no;
Coca-Cola ["dope"-cocaine] 1903 ok; valium 1992 OK;
desert storm Dexedrine and relaxants OK
child temper tantrums ok; MD "take off clothes" ok
sharp military commands ok; authoritarian teacher "rude"
rape by black of white in old south death ;
rape by white of black in old south not a crime
claim to be Napoleon; theater ok ; at home mental illness
killing: self defense ok; protect weak ok; war ok;
in an argument Murder
What about:
-audience
-power
routy, noisy behavior; party & drinking ok, Abortion Divorce
work or school bad
Euthensia Smoking
parents, friends, co-workers, other students
Stoning gays & unfathfu
Stoning for infidelity
drug types and SES, rape SES, roles (prostitute, husband, date)
Stay alert drugs for military pilots (desert storm and Afghanistan
Found on DDH Bulletin board F07
Quiz Averages S1
Quiz Averages S2