Description
Half a century ago, social scientist Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments. The teacher is told to administer electroshocks in progressively more painful degrees to the learner. The teacherunaware that the learner is an actor receiving no shocks at allis the real focus of the study. These controversial and criticized experiments illustrate how people will obey authority regardless of consequences.
Milgrams] investigations accomplish what we should expect of responsible social science: to inform the intellect without trivializing the
Author: Stanley Milgram
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/30/2009
Series: Perennial Classics
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780061765216
Language: English
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