Overall Theme:
Your research should focus on one of these major topics:
1. Over obedience to authority (relate to Milgram)
2. Abuse of authority (relate to Zimbardo)
3. Conformity as a social phenomenon (Relate to Asch)
Topics:
- Research reactions to Milgram's experiment
- Nuremburg war crimes
- Trial of Adolf Eichmann and banality of evil
- My Lai Massacre and Lt. William Calley
- Watergate scandal and abuse of authority
- Abu Ghraib prison scandal and abuse of authority
- Street gangs and conformity to social pressure
- Antigone and The Lottery (Short Story by Shirley Jackson) versus obedience to authority
4 sources minimum. At least one article from a scholarly journal and a book
