SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Strip Search, Craig Zobel, Social Influence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Galvin

Document Summary

Calls manager and pretends to be a cop. Caller convinces manager (sandra) to lock up employee and strip search her. Dissonant for us to see normal people perform awful acts on innocent people. Actually happened in the 2000s: 2003 called mcdonalds and convinced her to strip search her, 2004 a man was arrested for these calls. Obedience to authority they have a position in society which we should obey. Role theory the role gives us the privilege to do certain things. Power: relational, the ability to influence and control the behaviour of another person. Compliance: conforming to the person in power. Authority: the capacity of someone to issues orders, invoking rights because of their role, cops, doctors, managers, enforced by norms/ shared value in society, these norms are the power of authority. Stanley milgram asked in the 1960s immoral acts good and evil. Interested in how so many people participated in the holocaust.