Audio Resources

Audio 5.1: What Happens When Bureaucracy Almost Kills You?
Description: There is a list of names of just about everyone with a social security number who has died. It is meant to prevent identity theft. But sometimes a name of a living person gets added by accident.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Show how the characteristics of bureaucracy apply to formal organizations.

Audio 5.2: For Smokers Quitting May be Contagious
Description: If a close friend or spouse quits smoking, you’re more likely to quit, medical experts say. But what if your friends’ friends give up cigarettes? A recent study shows that the influence of social networks extends much further than you might think.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Demonstrate the impact social networks can have on the lives of individuals.

Audio 5.3: Milgram Then and Now
Description: NPR All Things Considered story describes Milgrim’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: 5.1: Demonstrate the impact social networks can have on the lives of individuals.

Audio 5.4: Big Data Revolution
Description: Scroll down to the “Big Data Revolution.” Once invisible details of our lives can now be tracked and turned into data. Will this make life easier or more complicated? This hour, TED speakers imagine how Big Data will reshape our world.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Demonstrate the impact social networks can have on the lives of individuals.

Video Resources

Video 5.1: Generation Like
Description: In Generation Like, author and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff (The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders) explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media—and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Provide examples of how verbal and nonverbal interaction guides our behavior.

Video 5.2: Social Media Fame
Description: In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to web stardom.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Provide examples of how verbal and nonverbal interaction guides our behavior.

Video 5.3: The Importance of McDonaldization to Students
Description: Sociologist George Ritzer talks about why students should be interested in the concept of McDonaldization.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Show how the characteristics of bureaucracy apply to formal organizations.

Web Resources

Web 5.1: Nonverbal Communication: Reading Body Language and Improving Your Nonverbal Skills
Description: A discussion of the five roles that nonverbal communication can play.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Provide examples of how verbal and nonverbal interaction guides our behavior.

Web 5.2: 10 Nonverbal Cues That Convey Confidence at Work
Description: A discussion on how our non-verbal communication can contradict what we verbally communicate at work.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Provide examples of how verbal and nonverbal interaction guides our behavior