Sociology

Please read articles (by Durkheim and Meyer) linked here and posted under course resources as Optional Reading Packet-1 and watch videos, below. 

Then, reply to one of these two questions:

1. In Durkheim's classic study on Suicide, he explained suicide by social, rather than psychological or biological phenomena. Other things, similarly, can be explained from this sociological perspective. For instance, creativity. Please watch the following video and answer this question: How is creativity a product of society -- do you think that it is? 

Note: You might want to bring the Durkheim article into this discussion. 

“Where Good Ideas Come From,” Creativity as a Site of Sociological Inquiry 

2.  How does the Stanford Prison Experiment (like the Milgram Experiment) show how "social structure--the way society is organized--shapes our lives?" (p. 163) 
Note: You might want to bring the readings into this discussion (e.g., you might want to discuss the article from Durkheim and/or Meyer). 

Stanford Prison Experiment BBC Documentary