The Lone Critic

So just who is this Rockefeller guy? To the masses, they probably remember John D. Rockefeller as a huge oil tycoon in the early part of the 20th century, but beyond that, little is really known about him or his descending family. The name seems to be thrown around almost every conspiracy though, so let’s take a closer look at just how involved this name is within hidden agencies and agendas.

John D. Rockefeller was America’s first billionaire and his wealth continued to grow after his death in 1937; it was distributed through a system of foundations and trusts, but of course his wealth infringed into the political and banking arena, which brings focus to many of the conspiracies and to a new world order ran by the banking industry.

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The science of sociology in organizations and institutions is extremely powerful. Understanding how and why organizations are set up and the power of institutions can help us better understand ourselves and society.

Once consciously outside of society’s iron cage of rationality, a sociologically mindful person may come up with many questions and pondering ideas on why/how they act a certain way, belief a certain ideal, eat a certain food, and much more. There is much more to consider though.

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The current institutional foundation our society has learned to grow on is slowly starting to crack. Although it may be cracking, that doesn’t mean it will be fixed. Power is always the architect to our every-day sociological formulas.

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After reading an in-depth critique by Edward Seidman on the errors of conceptualization, I couldn’t help but agree with re-framing all the premises involved in traditional research problems. We need to learn that there is always an alternative to consider, not just for the social science in the justice department but in our health, education, welfare, and other systems.

The problem with our society is that we get too caught up with repeatable, institutionalized theories and ideas that we become completely dependent on it, much like what Maruyama has called monopolarization. How can we train our society to consider other alternative thinking patterns? Why must we always ‘victim-blame’ or label people with an implicit, automatic response trained in the first-order conceptualization process?

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The misconceptions of how genetics is associated with a certain disorder are socially constructed. Right away people think that if something is derived through genetics, that it is unchangeable, hence creating an implicit acceptance to a disorder. The way genetics are being reported through the media is causing this error.

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