Implicit
theories |
Colonial (Industrial) Worldview
|
Community |
The moral community
is made up of those who work to develop industrial processes with new
labor-saving devises. Entreprenneurs |
System |
The system consists
of various other industrial entrepreneurs engaged in competition. Natural world is a resource base for
industrial processes. Plants, animals
and minerals are “raw materials.” |
Authority |
Authority is vested
in nation-states under elected governments or constitutional monarchies whose
role is to facilitate industial development |
Change |
Change occurs through
the invention of manufacturing technology through invention and the
application of science for willful innovation. Change is good -- and necessary – for competitive
survival of rival industrial powers.
Growth for the sake of growth is a goal . |
Agency |
The state and the
entrepreneurial classes need to act together.
The state should act to facilitate and “free up” the potential for
industrial growth. |
Time
|
The focus is upon the
immediate future in which plans for growth, innovation and measurable
expansion can be realized. The preindustrial past becomes “outdated.” The system
moves toward the “new” and innovative.
The “modern” is “good” the “old-fashioned” is simply discarded,
bypassed or ignored |