Throughout the years‚ many sociologists have researched the conformity within society. The two experiments that remain important and significant are the Asch Experiment and the Milgram Experiment. Both of these experiments researched the basis on why or even how conformity appears in society. The Asch Experiment was an experiment that was done by Soloman Asch in 1951 that took students from Swarthmore College to test if one participant would conform to the majority’s opinion‚ even if the answers
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After watching the Milgram experiment and the abuse that occur in Abu Ghraib prison. It is clear that leadership roles and authority position can both influence people to do thing that are harmful and bad to others. Leadership focuses on gaining people to follow them and is more based on free will. While authority has the power to tell people what to do. In the Milgram experiment many people back up why they continue administering shocks by stating‚ “Because an authority figure was telling them
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for (a*X^2) + (b*x) + c: >> syms a b c x % define symbolic math variables >> f = sym(’a*x^2 + b*x + c’); From now on we can use the f symbol to represent the given function. Evaluation of Symbolic Expressions The keyfunction subs (which stands for substitute) is used to replace symbolic variables with either new symbolic variables or with acutal values.
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black paint used to paint the dots on a pair of dice? A. Choice A B. Choice B C. Choice C D. Choice D 7. The cost of fire insurance for a manufacturing plant is generally considered to be a: A. product cost. B. period cost. C. variable cost. D. all of these. 8. Transportation costs incurred by a manufacturing company to ship its product to its customers would be classified as which of the following? A. Product cost B. Manufacturing overhead C. Period cost D. Administrative
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Plant No. 2 1. Using budget data‚ how many Apple iPhone 4’s would have to have been completed for Danshui Plant No. 2 to break even? 2. Using budget data‚ what was the total expected cost per unit if all manufacturing and shipping overhead (both variable and fixed) were allocated to planned production? What was the actual cost per unit of production and shipping. 3. Prepare a flexible budget for 180‚000 iPhone 4’s and calculate flexible budget variances using actual costs for August. 4. Estimate
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In the 1960s‚ Milgram‚ then a professor at Yale‚ recruited ordinary people through a newspaper ad offering them money to help in a project purporting to improve human memory. In Milgrams experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. Milgram was interested in how people obey under authoritative circumstances‚ using "fake" settings to test obedience. Under any given circumstance people tend to obey authority differently
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Tammy Wang‚ a new customer‚ to fulfill a large one-time-only special order for a product similar to one offered to regular customers. The following per unit data apply for sales to regular customers: Direct materials $455 Direct labor 300 Variable manufacturing support 45 Fixed manufacturing support 100 Total manufacturing costs 900 Markup (60%) 540 Targeted selling price $1440 Grant’s Kitchens has excess capacity. Ms. Wang wants the cabinets in cherry rather than oak‚ so direct
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Obedience to Authority: its Meaning‚ Uses‚ and Side Effects Obedience to authority is an aspect present in all societies throughout known history. For the entirety of this paper‚ obedience to authority will refer to any act a member of society performs that he or she was told to do by a position of higher authority. This paper will focus on the idea that members of society will follow commands that may go against their moral beliefs on the sole account that the commands come from a place of higher
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An obedience experiment directed by Milgram (1974) involved the participant in a laboratory environment as the role of a teacher‚ pertaining to the effects of punishment on learning (Gibson 2011). Participants were deceived by being told that as part of the experiment they were required to administer an electric shock to the ‘learner’. The participants’ had observed the ‘learners’ (who were confederate in the experiment) in an adjoining room being secured to a chair. The participants were informed
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