First posting and a half.

The reason for which I have picked my question is that I am very interested in the interactions of people. Why do people act the way they do? How does it differ from when they are alone to when they are in a group? Around authority? It may be possible to gather some answers from literature.

Currently, I am taking a sociology class in which some of these ideas are addressed. The main focus of sociology is how people interact in a group. From time to time, I can include the ideas from my sociology class into my Big Question.

• Some current ideas: Authority, fear from it/ of it, wanting to be included, information surrounding them has suggested that they should act a certain way (ie. media).
  

Oedipus

Fate? --he ended up committing the act because he attempted to avoid it based off of his own knowledge

Guilt? --he ridiculed himself after finding out what he had done

Denial or ignorance? --he wanted to catch the person who killed Liaus, and said condemning things about him, not knowing that it was he who committed the crime