SOC200H1 Lecture Notes - Stanford Prison Experiment, Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council, Milgram Experiment
Document Summary
There was a time in the school of sociology when the researchers were only answerable to their own conscience. It was the wild wild west of research. During ww2 there were studies conducted on people in concentration camps, conducting research on people who don"t have a choice is not ethical. After ww2 social scientists were really interested in why people do things they do, like the holocaust where people acted in a really fucked up way. Milgram experiment: people who obey people in authority, ethical issue: is it okay to trick the subjects into thinking the other person were getting shocked. Zimbardo experiment: stanford prison experiment, people in authority abuse their power, set up a mock prison, made people role play guards and prison, they had to stop the experiment, because guards were abusing their power. Ethics review: most researchers nowadays are subject to codes of ethics, tri-council policy statement. Sshrc, cihr (canadian institute for health research) &
