1. (5 points) Which of the topics that we covered during this quick summer session did you find the most interesting? Why?
Answer:
I thoroughly enjoyed learning about behavioral obedience in “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably.” Learning about the findings of Stanley Milgram made me think about my role in society with different situations. Horrendous war crimes seem to be waiting to happen if our obedience level is such. Although resistance to act according to someone’s orders does occur, one corrupt leader is all it takes. How else are we supposed to act? We were taught to respect our parents and take orders from early on. Our social structure breeds things like war crimes. It was a real eye-opener.
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She took and analyzed the behavior of Midwestern people to an extent that I never noticed before. She did an absolutely awesome job at picking up very distinct things that would have taken me a long time to pick up on. She talked about how we always say location-wise general places. This includes saying, “I am going to the pool.” We never state which pool unless it is further away. Maybe this is because we don’t have a million pools around. We don’t have luxuries of having more than one Walmart (unless you live in Sioux Falls.)
I noticed also that many Midwestern people talk about the weather often. I noticed that this was weird since many people consider talking about weather is last resort topics for an awkward situation. She added onto the fact that they talk about this after a murder! I hadn’t thought that that was a topic of second importance to a murder! Overall, her post was very thought provoking in these …show more content…
Sociology can help curb kid’s curiosity about history. Sociology gives you more important critical and analyzing skills that will help kids learn why a war happened or a certain event had these effects on society. The only area a learned any of this where my teacher could answer my questions about history was a very narrow explanation of certain things in my modern and emerging America classes (Again, very narrow). Sociology can help law-makers do a better job at doing their job. I am sure there are already certain provisions that include sociologists’ insights. More and more, I hear about different commissions from areas like the House of Representatives where they take different specialists’ ideas. I think the people making the decisions need to have a greater background on sociology. The majority of the population in the House probably have never studied sociology to an extent where it would make a difference in laws being passed. Police need to better understand how people (large groups) react to problems. This comes with educating the prosecutors and attorney generals who train these police. They should train them to not only know what to do legally, but how to do it without causing a large stir. Adding sociology to the curriculum of police officers can prevent things like the ones happening in our country right now. It
Answer:
I thoroughly enjoyed learning about behavioral obedience in “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably.” Learning about the findings of Stanley Milgram made me think about my role in society with different situations. Horrendous war crimes seem to be waiting to happen if our obedience level is such. Although resistance to act according to someone’s orders does occur, one corrupt leader is all it takes. How else are we supposed to act? We were taught to respect our parents and take orders from early on. Our social structure breeds things like war crimes. It was a real eye-opener.
2. (5 …show more content…
She took and analyzed the behavior of Midwestern people to an extent that I never noticed before. She did an absolutely awesome job at picking up very distinct things that would have taken me a long time to pick up on. She talked about how we always say location-wise general places. This includes saying, “I am going to the pool.” We never state which pool unless it is further away. Maybe this is because we don’t have a million pools around. We don’t have luxuries of having more than one Walmart (unless you live in Sioux Falls.)
I noticed also that many Midwestern people talk about the weather often. I noticed that this was weird since many people consider talking about weather is last resort topics for an awkward situation. She added onto the fact that they talk about this after a murder! I hadn’t thought that that was a topic of second importance to a murder! Overall, her post was very thought provoking in these …show more content…
Sociology can help curb kid’s curiosity about history. Sociology gives you more important critical and analyzing skills that will help kids learn why a war happened or a certain event had these effects on society. The only area a learned any of this where my teacher could answer my questions about history was a very narrow explanation of certain things in my modern and emerging America classes (Again, very narrow). Sociology can help law-makers do a better job at doing their job. I am sure there are already certain provisions that include sociologists’ insights. More and more, I hear about different commissions from areas like the House of Representatives where they take different specialists’ ideas. I think the people making the decisions need to have a greater background on sociology. The majority of the population in the House probably have never studied sociology to an extent where it would make a difference in laws being passed. Police need to better understand how people (large groups) react to problems. This comes with educating the prosecutors and attorney generals who train these police. They should train them to not only know what to do legally, but how to do it without causing a large stir. Adding sociology to the curriculum of police officers can prevent things like the ones happening in our country right now. It