Morality in the making of sense and self: Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments and the new science of morality

This book offers a new explanation of obedience and defiance in Milgram's lab. Examining one of the largest collections of Milgram's original audiotapes, Hollander and Turowetz scrutinize participant behavior in not only the experiments themselves, but also recordings of the subsequent deb...

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Main Author: Hollander, Matthew M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
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Summary:This book offers a new explanation of obedience and defiance in Milgram's lab. Examining one of the largest collections of Milgram's original audiotapes, Hollander and Turowetz scrutinize participant behavior in not only the experiments themselves, but also recordings of the subsequent debriefing interviews in which participants were asked to reflect on their actions. Introducing an original theoretical framework in the sociology of morality, they show that, contrary to traditional understandings of Milgram's experiments that highlight obedience, virtually all subjects, both compliant and defiant, mobilized practices to resist the authority's commands. By illuminating the relationship between concrete moral dilemmas and social interaction, Hollander and Turowetz tell a new, empirically-grounded story about Milgram: one about morality-and immorality-in the making of sense and self
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (265 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190096076
9780190096069
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190096045.001.0001