Across
- 7. Critique of the one-sided, instrumental, strategic or technical use of reason in democratic capitalist societies to advance economic, political, and cultural power.
- 9. When previously marginalized individuals and groups are free to fully participate across all spheres of society, one in which freedom rather than domination is evident in social and institutional practices.
- 10. 18th century philosophical movement emphasizing the centrality of individual reason, human equality, and scientific rationality over non-rational beliefs and forms of social organization.
Down
- 1. Calculated procedures and techniques used in the strategic implementation of instrumental goals typically in the service of economic profit and/or social control
- 2. The thesis that the ideas affirmed by the Enlightenment have been turned into their opposite by instrumentally rational domination exerted by capitalist institutions.
- 3. Mass media celebration of the public legitimacy and influence of actors and other media personalities irrespective of their credentials.
- 4. Evaluative use of reason to advance values of equality and freedom.
- 5. Penetration of the regulatory control of the state and other bureaucratic and corporate entities into everyday life.
- 6. Strategic use of reason to control others.
- 8. Advertising and other mass mediated content delivered by a technologically sophisticated, profit-driven, corporate culture industry.