SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Stanley Milgram, Group Cohesiveness
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I ntro: 1941 russian train station: june 28th, hundreds of soviet soldiers, Nazi troops invaded belarus a few days ago. how did an advanced society like germany commit the crime of the. felt as if jewish people, etc. , threatened them. norms of solidarity demand conformity when we form relationships we develop shared ideas or norms of solidarity in order to sustain the relationship. soldiers often did not hate the people that they slaughtered, committed atrocities to maintain group morale, social solidarity. some heroes were anti-semitic, what christians had in common was the fact that they were cut-off from mainstream norms early on. poorly socialized, thus freer not to conform. heroes tend to have unusual socialization patterns freedom not to conform to group norms later in life. Why most people conform: norms of solidarity demand conformity, structures of authority tend to render people obedient, bureacracies in particular are highly effective structures of authority.
