COMM 4334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eugenics Record Office, Stanford Prison Experiment, Carrie Buck

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 4334
• Professor: Mackay

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Professor zimbardo divided groups of students into prisoners & wardens to see how we respond to authority power corrupts ethical guidelines changed. Social equality suggests that everyone is equal within a particular social setting. Equal treatment for equals equals equally & unequals unequally. Studies conducted by the eugenics record office suggested certain traits led to: criminal behavior, disease, immoral behavior. Fear of degradation of race & culture. Mother institutionalized for being feeble minded, committed by her foster parents because she got pregnant through rape by a family relative (never denied) Both her mother & her were ruled to be: promiscuous & feebleminded. Went to us supreme court, whether or not constitutional to sterilize carrie. O(cid:272)iologist e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455) vi(cid:448)ia(cid:374) & said: (cid:862)(cid:271)elo(cid:449) a(cid:448)e(cid:396)age(cid:863), (cid:862)(cid:374)ot (cid:395)uite (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al(cid:863) Ruling to sterilize feeble-minded people was never over-turned. (cid:862)tuskegee tud(cid:455) of u(cid:374)t(cid:396)eated (cid:455)philis i(cid:374) the neg(cid:396)o male(cid:863) 600 black men 399 with syphilis. Received medical exams, meals, & burial insurance.