Mechanical Philosophy

• made possible the industrial revolution
• “Human Resources” = specialized tools

Compulsory Schooling

• 1818 Originated in Germany
• 1848 started in Massachusetts
• less about knowledge, more about control
• Provisional Self-Esteem

Behaviorism

• Science of controlling human behavior
• Humans as part of the machine, in the new industrial revolution
• Adjustments to behavior via (positive or negative) stimulus
• 1890s – Conditioned Reflex – Pavlov’s Dog

John Watson

• 1906 – study on rat behavior & control
• “give me a baby, and I can make any kind of man”

Division of Labor

• Scientific Management
• Tasks broken down into units
• Increased Efficiency
• Control of knowledge, skill and power of workers

Socialism

Hawthorn Experiment

• If you let a worker talk about their feelings, they work better
• even if the conditions aren’t changed
• Western Electric plant in Cicero, Illinois
• Between 1924 and 1927

Corporations

• Worker owned business

Herbert Spencer

• Disliked Darwin
• created theory of ‘Social Darwinism’
• Created the expression “Survival of the Fittest”
  – to undercut the research results of Darwin’s research
• wrote – Principles of Biology

Displaced Aggression

• 1939 – Frustration Aggression research at Yale
• 1941 – Hobart Mower – Rat Experiment
  – showed rats would re-direct their aggression when manipulated
• Endless News that feeds the narratives

Cognitive bias

• “subjective reality” based on choices offered