Radiolab milgram

Objective:

The objective of this post to have you understand the variance and fluidity of deviance, which depends on the situation, the time, the perspective of the individual and society.

Instructions:

1. Listen to the following Radio Lab podcast, The Bad Show:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/180092-the-bad-show/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Links to an external site.

For students with hearing impaired needs, please use this link and turn on transcriptions. Go to the right of the image below, and you will see three dots, click. Then a menu will open and choose "Open Transcript":

Radiolab - The Bad Show [Dr. David Buss, Dan Charles, Alex Haslam, Jeff Jensen, Frederick Kaufman] (Links to an external site.)

Objective:

The objective of this post to have you understand the variance and fluidity of deviance, which depends on the situation, the time, the perspective of the individual and society.

Instructions:

1. Listen to the following Radio Lab podcast, The Bad Show:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/180092-the-bad-show/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Links to an external site.

For students with hearing impaired needs, please use this link and turn on transcriptions. Go to the right of the image below, and you will see three dots, click. Then a menu will open and choose "Open Transcript":

Radiolab - The Bad Show [Dr. David Buss, Dan Charles, Alex Haslam, Jeff Jensen, Frederick Kaufman] (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

2. After listening to the podcast, answer the following questions on your post and then reply to two of your peers?

1. What was your response to the professor's study, which he conducted on his students about murder?

2. Who was Fritz Haber? What major war crimes did he commit? Is he at all responsible for the massive genocide of Jews? Explain your answer.

3. In revisiting Stanley Milgram's study, what was not reported and why is this lost information significant?

4. At the end of Stanley Milgram's study, many of the participants, though distressed in their study, shared that they felt the study was a worthy cause. Are you at all concerned that people will do bad things if the cause is worthy or noble? Or is this social quality good for society? explain.

5. Why do you think that the Green River Killer eluded capture for so long?

6. What are your thoughts about someone being able to kill so callously like the Green River Killer and how does this compare to Nazi Germany when millions were murdered?

7. Add any additional thoughts.

8. Respond to two peers.

9. Original post should be 300 to 500 words in length. Anything shorter will lose points. Anything longer is OK.

10. Please number responses!!!! Or you will lose points. Do NOT respond as one large essay.