SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stanford Prison Experiment
1 May 2018
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Note Set 6 9/29/2017
Doing Sociology: Ethics in Research
Case Studies:
- Case Studies in Ethics Violation:
1. Milgram – Obedience to Authority
▪ Testers gave shocks to student memorizing, but was only recordings of
sounds made by students when voltage increased. But ultimately 67% of
men and 73% of women continued to obey the researchers instructions.
2. Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment:
▪ 25 male students were selected and randomly assigned as Guards or
Prisoners.
▪ Guards tried to gain control over Prisoners by psychological methods
since they were not allowed to physically touch prisoners.
▪ Conditions in prison deteriorated very fast that the experiment was
supposed to last 2 weeks but only lasted 6 days.
▪ Why it felt like a real prison:
• Parents accepted authority of prison than their own sons says of the
prisons mistreatment.
• Priests gave them legal advice than spiritual one as he though they
were real prisoners who were awaiting trial.
• Lawyer told them about their legal right of being in a prison
instead of thinking of them as college students.
• Chief experimenter got too involved as the prison manager and
forgot his role as a sociology researcher.
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