Video and Multimedia
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Video
Description: News story on Ferguson protests, human rights violation, racial discrimination, and resentment and mistrust toward law enforcement.
Learning Objective: 5-4: Describe three different types of formal organizations.
Description: This video presents the hypothesis that technology may be adversely affecting the development and effective use of social capital.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Explain the sociological concepts of economic, cultural, and social capital.
Description: Ted talk about the interrelated nature of schools and prisons as a gauge of social opportunities available to different groups and communities in U.S. society.
Learning Objective: 5-5: Apply a sociological lens to analyze modern bureaucracies.
Audio
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: Discuss the power of groups in terms of their composition, leadership, and conformity.
Web
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: Apply a sociological lens to analyze modern bureaucracies.