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Video:

Protesting Against Coercion
Description: News story on Ferguson protests, human rights violation, racial discrimination, and resentment and mistrust towards law enforcement.
Learning Objective: 5-4

Technology and Social Capital
Description: This video presents the hypothesis that technology may be adversely affecting the development and effective use of social capital.
Learning Objective: 5-3

Schools vs Prisons
Description: Ted talk about the interrelated nature of schools and prisons as a gauge of social opportunities available to different groups and communities in US society.
Learning Objective: 5-5

Audio:

Milgram Then and Now
Description: NPR All Things Considered story describes Milgram’s experiment, key findings, and limitations of the original study. The story reports on present day follow-up investigation with original participants, and addresses ethics and implications for human subjects studies.
Learning Objective: 5-2

Web:

Authority & Conformity
Description: This article discusses and compares the Milgram study to the Stanford Prison Experiment, and calls into question whether scientists should reconsider obedience to authority.
Learning Objective: 5-5