The student guards in Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment behaved the way they

Question

The student guards in Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment behaved the way they did because:

         a.      they believed the “inmates” had actually committed crimes and deserved punishment.

         b.      they were affected by social context.

         c.      they were simply following orders from a legitimate authority figure, who in this case was their professor.

d.      they were malnourished.

Prisons and military boot camps are examples of what Erving Goffman calls:

         a.      the Rockefeller drug laws.

         b.      panopticons.

         c.      total institutions.

         d.      specific deterrence.

According to the sociologist Georg Simmel, what can you use to predict the behavior of members of a social group?

         a.      whether the group serves a social or professional function

         b.      the number of people in the group

         c.      whether the group is personal or impersonal

         d.      whether the group has a hierarchical or flat structure

Where is the "right to be forgotten" a policy?

         a.      European Union

         b.      Argentina

         c.      United States

         d.      China

Explanation / Answer

Ans 1 b) they were affected by the soxial context.

Zimbardo instructed his student guards to tackle the prisoners in a way that made them feel powerless and feel a lack of individuality. But their behavior was affected by the social surroundings and cultural expectations also called as lucifer effect.

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