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Video Links:

1. Video 2.1: Milgram Experiment on Obedience
Description: This Khan Academy video explores the lasting legacy of the Milgram Experiment.

2. Video 2.2: Role Strain and Role Conflict
Description: This video provides a clear and concise discussion on “role strain” and “role conflict.”

3. Video 2.3: Khan Academy: An Overview of Culture
Description: This video provides a concise exploration of the elements of culture and how culture varies from society to society around the world.

Audio Links:

1. Audio 2.1: This American Life 378: This I Used to Believe
Description: This program is a compilation of stories about people forced to let go of their firmly held beliefs. For example, when the daughter of a pro-choice activist concludes that abortion is murder, her mother goes to extraordinary lengths to persuade her daughter to switch sides. An additional example shows us that after a woman loses her faith, a football coach—who she's never met—tries to restore it.

2. Audio 2.2: NPR Social Media’s Growing Influence
Description: In this program, host Scott Simon explores the growing impacts of social media on government, politics, and problems solving. Simon investigates the rapid growth of social media as a mechanism for influence and explores how different groups are impacted by the influence of technology and social media. Issues related to the growing digital divide are address and explored as Simon examines the impacts social media has on individuals.

3. Audio 2.3: Here and Now: Can You Disappear Without Leaving Society?
Description: In this program, host Robin Young interviews reporter Nathanial Popper about Jameson Loop, a man who has gone to great lengths to become invisible in society without withdrawing directly. They explore the interconnected nature of individual life and social structures and the complex ways in which individuals interact with and rely upon social institutions. In the discussion, the difficulty of withdrawing from society, and the great lengths taken by Loop are explored.

Web Links:

1. Web 2.1: Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)
Description: Sociologists who work from the symbolic interactionist perspective have long had their own professional association, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI).

2. Web 2.2: American Anthropology Association (AAA)
Description: Anthropology is a social science related to Sociology and is defined as the study of humankind, from its beginnings millions of years ago to the present day. The American Anthropology Association (AAA) has two purposes including to advance anthropology as a science that studies humankind in all its aspects, through archeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research and to further the professional interests of American anthropologists, including the dissemination of anthropological knowledge and its use to solve human problems.

3. Web 2.3: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Description: The Stanford Prison Experiment website features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions the researchers posed in a dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University [self-characterization].