Conformity and Obedience
Conformity and Obedience
Includes obedience to authority and group conformity; does not include civil disobedience or other resistance to authority.
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| "If More People Said No": Josh N. Talks about Difficult Choices | Video Clip | July 29, 2008 |
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A Class Divided 60 minutes A Class Divided is an expanded version of Eye of the Storm. In this documentary, Jane Elliott meets with her class to talk about the classroom experiment about discrimination she performed 15 years earlier and the effects it had on their lives. In addition, Jane Elliott is seen giving this lesson to employees of the Iowa prison system. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Matter of Obedience? In her study of totalitarian regimes, Hannah Arendt wondered, “How do average, even admirable, people become dehumanized by the critical circumstances pressing in on them?” In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a professor at Yale University, decided to find out by recruiting college students to take part in what he called “a study of the effects of punishment on learning.” In Milgram’s words, “The point of the experiment is to see how far a person will proceed in a concrete and measurable situation in which he is ordered to inflict increasing pain on a protesting victim... |
Publication Readings | April 21, 2010 |
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Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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Bordando La Verdad: Arte de Protesta Femenino en el Chile de Pinochet
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Publication | July 12, 2010 |
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Building Bridges in Changing Times Like his father and grandfather before him, Henryk Goldszmit spent much of his life trying to bring together Poles and Jews. But in the 1930s, he was finding it harder to do. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Bystanders Watch Gang Rape CNN.com reports that up to 20 people were present when a 15-year-old girl was gang raped and beaten in Richmond, California last weekend. As many as 10 people were involved in the 2 ½ hour assault while 10 more watched. Not one of the 10 bystanders called the police to report the incident. Instead, witnesses laughed and took photographs. Richmond Police Lt. |
Facing Today | October 28, 2009 |
Charting Identity: Building Community in the Classroom |
Lesson Plan | February 22, 2008 |
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China: A Century of Revolution 3 episodes, 120 minutes each on 3 VHS or 1 DVD This first-hand look at China's tumultuous history examines the country's social, political and cultural upheaval through eyewitness accounts, archival film footage, and commentary. |
Library Resource | April 7, 2010 |
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Coming Out in Middle School Benoit Denizet-Lewis reports in his New York Times Magazine article “Coming Out in Middle School” that more and more middle-school students are openly gay. “Just how they’re faring in a world that wasn’t expecting them – and that isn’t so sure a 12-year-old can know if he’s gay – is a complicated question that defies simple geographical explanations,” Denizet-Lewis writes. |
Facing Today | September 30, 2009 |
Bordando La Verdad: Arte de Protesta Femenino en el Chile de Pinochet es la historia de las hermanas, esposas y madres que formaban el movimiento de mujeres de protesta en Chile durante la dictadura de Pinochet (1973-1990). Es una increíble historia de coraje y resistencia.
