: : You are to create a dialogue of a social issue that interests you. You are engaging in an argument about the issue. There should be exactly characters taking part in the argument. You can have two characters involved in the argument trying to convince one other participant. You […]

A Yale psychologist, Irving Janis, coined the termgroupthinkin the early 1970s (1972).* Groupthink occurs when group cohesion and agreement become so important that the members of the group are not able to dissent, even if that means that the members of the group make irrational decisions. Janis argued that groupthink […]

Introduction: This item asks you to do a very small scale research project. You need to choose a topic area, decide on which qualitative method to use, and write up the results. I suggest 3-4 one-on-one interviews or one 4-5 person focus group will suffice for data collection. Doing the […]

The ability of wealthy individuals, interest groups, and corporations to influence elections, legislation, and public policy is nothing new. You may remember that virtually all of the framers of the US Constitution were wealthy, property rich men. Ive made the point before that although our political system is a representative […]