What best characterizes the structure of southern society? society was a caste-like system with poor whites at the bottom of the white social ladder. yeoman farmers owned the largest number of slaves. southern opposition to slavery grew with the invention of the cotton gin.

Why does c. wright mills identify critical thinking as one of the most important criteria for the development of intellectual craftsmanship? why is constantly being aware of the biased nature of your reactions and interactions (what c. wright mills calls self-reflexive) key to the development of that critical thinking? finally, why is keeping a file important, how can it lean to intellectual curiosity which can foster critical thinking and to develop a keen analytical mind?