SOC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hutterite, New Religious Movement, Deindividuation
2 Nov 2017
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Asch: the idea of conformity, people will go with the group even if the group is wrong. Milgram: obedience to authority, he did the study where an authority figure tells a participant to shock another individual. About 100 people survived: heavens gate, founders: marshall herff applewhite (aka. 2: 1985: applewhite revised philosophy, physical bodies = mere vehicles for the soul, 1990s: moved to california; ended in 1997, march 1997: 19 of their members committed suicide (willingly) Lofland and starks theory on religious conversion their different prophecies. Subjects: unification church ( moonies : formed in south korea in 1954, 3 million (?) member"s world wide as of 1995 considered by many to be a cult inductive: building a theory, deductive: resting a theory. Most new recruits to cults do not convert to them those who do convert tend to have two key things in common: 1. Recruitment by heavens gate was based on a small pool of individuals.
