Obdience and Disobedience Exercise:
Based on The Human Behavior Experiments (2006), the Seinfeld episode, "The Implant" (1993), and the readings by Haney et al. (1973), Haney and Zimbardo (1998) and Kulig et al. (2016)-all on Blackboard and Chapter 1 of Geometries of Crime, please answer the following questions:
1. What is conformity? Please provide a definition.
2. What is obedience? Please provide a definition.
3. What is deviance? Please provide a definition. If you conceptualize deviance differently than disobedience, please explain.
4. Why do people obey the law? Why do you obey the law?
5. Why and when do people not obey the law? Why and when do you not obey the law?
6. When/under what conditions do you feel it is permissible, desirable, or morally imperative not to obey the law?
7. What role does conformity play in obedience, in general, and obedience to the law, in particular? What role does conformity serve in disobedience to the law?
8. Name one (I) law that you believe one should always obey. Why?
9. Name one (1) law that you believe should be changed or repealed. Why?
10. What is the relationship between crime and deviance? Are all crimes deviant? Are all acts of deviance crimes?
(Hint: Think about George Costanza double-dipping his chip.)