{"id":2041,"date":"2013-06-12T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:13:09","slug":"evil-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2013\/06\/12\/evil-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Books in Sociology is an untapped resource for the classroom.  In these podcasts, the hosts spend about an hour talking with the author of a new sociological book.  While they are all interesting, a recent podcast <\/a>caught my (aspiring genocide scholar) eye.  Evil Men<\/em>, by James Dawes, draws on firsthand accounts of convicted war criminals.  This podcast would make a fantastic assignment in a course covering genocide, human rights, international law, or criminology.  Below are a few questions that could accompany the podcast.<\/p>\n

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  1. Who did Dawes choose to interview, and why?<\/li>\n
  2. Why were interviews an appropriate research method for this project?<\/li>\n
  3. Were people willing to talk with Dawes?  Why do you think this was the case?<\/li>\n
  4. What did Dawes learn about why these \u201cevil men\u201d committed the crimes they did?<\/li>\n
  5. What do his findings tell us about why people commit war crimes?  Based on what you have heard, do you find anything problematic about drawing scientific conclusions from his book?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This podcast could also be paired with several other activities on Teaching TSP, such as these activities about the Milgram experiment<\/a> and this activity about power.<\/a><\/p>\n

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    New Books in Sociology is an untapped resource for the classroom.  In these podcasts, the hosts spend about an hour talking with the author of a new sociological book.  While they are all interesting, a recent podcast caught my (aspiring genocide scholar) eye.  Evil Men, by James Dawes, draws on firsthand accounts of convicted war criminals.  This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127407],"tags":[19057,124,837,392,868],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class-exercises-activities","tag-atrocity","tag-crime","tag-materials","tag-podcasts","tag-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}