PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harold Garfinkel, Stanford Prison Experiment, Ethnomethodology
14 Dec 2016
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Milgram: psychiatrists said 1/10th of 1, 65% went the full way with the shocks, we tend to undervalue the forces of the situation, they tried but failed . Lee ross: less about destructive obedience than ineffective and indecisive disobedience. Milgram and other classic social psychologists have a different viewpoint. It is that whether or not people follow an evil command depends on the details of the situation. Another factor: how proximal/close that authority figure is: more obedience in person than in on the phone. Social norms: norms: situation-specific rules for accepted or expected behavior. So ingrained in us (so automatic, habitual) that we don"t even know they are influencing us. Harold garfinkel: breaching studies (ethnomethodology: break the rules of unstated social norms to study them, lodger study. Roles: set of norms that define how people in a given social position should behave, scripts.
