SCS 1150 Lecture 7: Chapters 7-11
2 Mar 2016
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Division of conformity as being linked radically to the norm. Its not because you are part of a family of deviants that you will become a. We must rst understand what we choose to be obedient in order to understand deviance. We explain social deviance by why people don"t conform to norms: either they"ve received a heritage that allows them to break the law (come, social phenomenons form a family of deviants) Obedience: stanley milgram, 1953 involved harming another person atrocities. Interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it. Interested in how easily ordinary people could be in uenced into committing. Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority gure, even to the. Obedience to authority is ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up. Authority still has a sacred power over the individuals even though we live in a.
