Stanford Prison Experiment (video)
Dialectic Reading
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What question did the text/chapter raise? |
How did the text answer this question? |
How does the answer match our own ideas and experiences? |
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What happens if you put good people in an evil place? |
Good people in a bad situation can transform the good person into bad. For example, the guards were given a sense of power over the prisoners, and this sense of power drove them to do some very nasty, ruthless things to the prisoners. The study clearly illustrated power corrupts and makes it tough for the victims of abuse to defend and stand up for themselves. Reason being they do not want to disobey an authority figure, in this case the guards. | I found this video to be very disturbing. How can it be so easy to transform into such roles that require one to cause harm to others? Not only is it alarming that these guards took on such vulgar roles when given the power, but its also quite scary to imagine if their were also given the power to be physically abusive would they be? According to the Milgram study they probably would. |
tinarandhawa 