Film: Obedience Stanley Milgram
Due: March 16, 2013
Film: Obedience Stanley Milgram
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlllu7_stranley-milgram-obedience_school#.UT_ecVeOySo
After watching the video, answer the following questions.
1) Despite the protests of the “learner†(a 50-year-old man who supposedly had a heart condition), none of the “teachers†challenged the process before they had applied 225 volts. Two-thirds of the participants went all the way to what could have been a deadly volt of electricity if the shock generator had been real. Why did the “teachers†continue to punish the “learners�
2) What conclusion(s) does the researcher Stanley Milgram draw about peoples obedience to authority?
3) What implications does this have for a democracy?