SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adolf Eichmann, Stanley Milgram, Word Association
2 Oct 2016
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After second ww lots of controversy over german soldiers. Justified their actions by saying that they were only taking orders and if they resisted they would get crap. Zimbardo and other sociologists studied the strength of people"s own reality what is right or wrong and the extent in which we will defend it. Mock prison power of social roles how influential are our social roles: didn"t say that guards have to be abusive just assigned who people were guards/prisoners, guards did become abusive. Ethical issues: harm to prisoners and guards (emotional, financial offered money to students. Adolf eichmann he"s not a mass murderer, he was a person in war following orders from people above him and if he didn"t he would die. Memory, retention and word association wasn"t presented as a study of people"s willingness to challenge authority study about learning and retention. People were not told about the true nature of the study.
