UNIV 1212: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Report Analysis

This report, prepared for UNIV 1212: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, analyzes the argumentation process and its key components. It explores the relationship between critical thinking and communication, emphasizing the influence of value and culture on arguments. The report defines key concepts such as aesthetics, communities, and perspective, providing examples to illustrate their significance. A case study is presented to demonstrate the practical application of these concepts in real-world scenarios, highlighting how language, values, and facial expressions affect individual arguments. The report concludes by summarizing the impact of different cultural patterns on argument development, emphasizing how individuals use these patterns to defend their viewpoints and claim their rights based on their cultural contexts and authorities.

Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Critical thinking and communication.....................................................................................4
Importance of value and culture in argument.........................................................................4
Key concepts..........................................................................................................................4
Case study...............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Value and culture are the core principle as well as ideas on which the whole community
exists. It is made up of several parts including custom, traditions, rituals and beliefs that
formulate culture for a society. This report highlights on impact of value and culture on an
argument or communicating method that are shaped according to society.
Critical thinking and communication
Communication is a set of reason that works to interpret meaningful message from sender to
receiver. Similarly, critical thinking refers to analyse and evaluate in perspective of issue to make
right and actual judgement (Alesina and Giuliano, 2015). Further, high context argument submits
large parts for argument meaning to interpret best result from complex situations. Example-
Facial expression and tone of voice match with words to generate meaningful conclusion from
communication.
Importance of value and culture in argument
In present scenario, most of the organisations are performing their work at global level
refers the methods of communication is impacted due to complex and interconnected world.
Example- individuals from Asian background demonstrate their view point diverse from
European persons on a similar background. As their culture and value is dissimilar from each
other.
Key concepts
Concepts relate with value and ethics that linked with arguments are mention as follow:
Aesthetics- It deal with creations of meaningful characteristic and perception for
representing perspective on a topic as per culture and value.
Communities- This refers to the groups that exist as the proximity for defining space,
relationship and time. In simple terms it is a huge number of personnel that share similar
characteristic and value.
Perspective- Each speaker and listener has their own viewpoints so they utilise their own
example to make statistical generalization for each topic (Rottig, Reus and Tarba, 2014).
Personal value- Family, relatives, community or society represent value that is learned
and followed by individual to accomplish their goals.

Moral value- An individual learn moral value from era of maturity as it assist to argue on
moral basis that what is actually right or wrong.
Case study
Languages, value and facial expression all are important aspects that impacts on individual
argument such as high context argument (Gendron and et. al., 2014). For globalisation
multicultural argument is expectations of argument that utilise reasoning and approaches to
complete work by overcoming from conflicts. Further, different culture argument pattern also
assist individual to argue with specific reasons.
CONCLUSION
In the last, by the above report it is summarised that different patterns and cultures
develop arguments to defend and justify viewpoints as a strong element. With each context of
value and culture people from represent themselves with different basis to claim their rights as
per authority.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Alesina, A. and Giuliano, P., 2015. Culture and institutions. Journal of Economic
Literature, 53(4), pp.898-944.
Gendron, M and et. al., 2014. Perceptions of emotion from facial expressions are not culturally
universal: evidence from a remote culture. Emotion, 14(2), p.251.
O’Reilly III and et. al., 2014. The promise and problems of organizational culture: CEO
personality, culture, and firm performance. Group & Organization Management, 39(6),
pp.595-625.
Rottig, D., Reus, T.H. and Tarba, S.Y., 2014. The Impact of Culture on Mergers and
Acquisitions: A Third of a Century of Research', Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions
(Advances in Mergers & Acquisitions, Volume 12).