Conformity and Obedience on Social Behavior
Abstract
This article discusses the definition of conformity and obedience. It uses experiments from Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram to illustrate how obedience and conformity affect social behavior. It also explains some of the reasons humans are so eager to be obedient.
Conformity is defi....
Gender and communication
Introduction
A catalog which recently arrived at my house advertises T-
shirts and bumperstickers popularizing the words of feminist
scholars Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler: "Feminism is the
radical notion that women are people."(1) Indeed, sometimes I
think we've spent the last two millenn....
Is it possible to approach Mother Courage without all the lumber of Brechtian theorising?
Since Brecht wrote Mother Courage in 1941, epic theatre has gone out of fashion and some critics would claim that it is no longer necessary to produce the play with the full lumber of Brechtian stage practice. This essay argues, however, that Brechts technique of epic theatre has to be ful....
Reinterpreting Disease; Genes Included
Nosology, or the field of disease characterization, is seldom mentioned when placed among other, more prominent domains, as a general misconception exists that it has little or no promise. What may blatantly strike people is that modern nosology may immeasurably impact the treatment and classificati....
Werner Heisenberg and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Werner Heisenberg, born in the dawn of the twentieth century became oneof its greatest physicists; he is also among its most controversial.While still in his early twenties, he was among the handful of bright,young men who created quantum mechanics, the basic physics of the atom,and he became a lead....
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