Humanities Homework Help

This is the study guide for this week’s assignments. Please answer as best you can so I can better understand. Most questions comes with a link.

1. Summarize two of the studies or experiments described in “How Diversity Makes Us Smarter: Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, diligent, and hard-working” by Katherine W. Phillips (Professor of Leadership and Ethics Management at Columbia Business School) September 18, 2017

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_diversity_makes_us_smarter

2. Describe the experiment by Solomon Asch on conformity.

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA [5 min 45 sec–the “experiment” depicted is probably staged but follows the results of the original]

https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html

3. Summarize one of the experiments described by Shelley Correll in this talk:

https://womensleadership.stanford.edu/level [25 min]

4. What was the Stonewall Uprising?

5. What is cisgender?

6. What is “white privilege”? Be familiar with what the Rev. Alex Gee describes in his essay for the Capital Times “Justified Anger.”

https://madison.com/ct/news/local/city-life/justified-anger-rev-alex-gee-says-madison-is-failing-its-african-american-community/article_14f6126c-fc1c-55aa-a6a3-6c3d00a4424c.html