SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Santa Barbara City College, Stanley Milgram, Cognitive Dissonance
Document Summary
During world war ii, social psychologists studied manipulation and propaganda for the. Scientists became involved in a variety of social problems after the war including gender issues and racial prejudice. The stanley milgram shock studies on obedience to authority were the most important, revealing, and controversial of these. New subjects, such as cognitive dissonance, bystander interference, and violence, became increasingly of concern in the sixties. But in america social psychology had entered a crisis by the. There was heated debate about the ethics of experimental research, whether or not behaviors really influenced behavior, and how much study could be performed in a cultural context. This was also the period when a revolutionary situations approach questioned the importance of self and personality in psychology. Social psychology reached a more mature level during the 1980s and 1990s. Theories and techniques were two of the areas of social science that evolved in.
