CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gwynne Dyer, George Herbert Mead, Philip Meyer
15 Mar 2016
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It would have to travel by a route other than the ear. Nope, even when teacher was forced to hold down learner"s hand to execute a shock, obedience still prevailed: subjects did not enjoy administering the painful shocks. But they were engaged in something from which they could not liberate themselves. No limitation of conscience: controversy over why milgram placed innocent subjects under great emotional strain and pressure. The learner is strapped in, but the subject. Importance of social structure (teacher) is free to go: what forces are at work in social situations that lead the individual to do things he or she might not normally do? . Attitudes about a fighter have evolved: progressive distortion and redirection of mentalities: anarchic machismo of the primitive warrior no longer needed to be a good soldier, required: own self-respect and special love for each other. Redefining a value that has been taught to them since childhood.
