Stanley Milgram: Understanding Obedience and its Implications

ISBN-13: 9780230573154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str.

Peter Lunt

Opis

This book is afascinating introduction to Stanley Milgram, best known for his obedience study in which he persuaded his subjects to administer electric shocks to what they thought were fellow subjects. Lunt explores Milgram's influence in social psychology and how he undercut the traditional notion that individuals should be seen as rational autonomous beings. "

Spis treści

Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiments.- Milgram's Theory and Explanation of his Findings.- The Reaction of the Psychological Community.- Power, Domination and the Sociology of the Holocaust.- Political Culture, Political Theory and Social Influence.- The Individual in a Social World.- Contemporary Resonance of Milgram's Research.- Afterword.

O autorze

PETER LUNT is a Social psychologist and media scholar. He is Professor of Media and Communications at Brunel University, UK. His previous books include Talk on Television and Mass Consumption and Personal Identity (both with Sonia Livingstone). He taught social psychology at University College London for nearly twenty years.

Blurb

In a series of ingenious studies, social psychologist Stanley Milgram, examined the impact of modern society on the psychology of individuals.
His most famous experiment saw participants commanded to administer painful electric shocks to supposed fellow volunteers and their compliance raised serious questions about the limits of moral autonomy and the ability of individuals to resist authority.
Lunt explores the historical and cultural setting of Milgram's social psychology, his intellectual roots and the continuing relevance of his research today. This authoritative introduction is essential reading for all those interested in the psychology of power and obedience.