SOC 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Milgram Experiment, Stanford Prison Experiment
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Power: the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality. Authority: the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. Traditional authority : power legitimized by respect for long-established cultural patterns. Charismatic authority : power legitimized by extraordinary personal abilities that inspire devotion and obedience. Rational-legal authority : also known as bureaucratic authority, is when power is legitimized by legally enacted rules and regulations such as governments. Milgram experiment (forcing the teacher to increase the voltage when people give the wrong answer, to see will they give in to the pressure or be an ethnical person and stop) Examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the world war. The stanford prison experiment ( spe ) was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers.
