Essay On Controlling Control

Controlling Control In many ways the United States has taken the ideas of our forefathers and sculpted them into ways they work in our modern country. The government is proactive and has listened to people about uprising issues. Year to year our country seems to sprout new controversies. One in particular many countries have encountered is the idea of control. How do we regulate and work against forces such as race and poverty to keep our citizens safe under all circumstances? The idea of control is broad but we have put in place active members of our country to stand on the front lines to keep our citizens safe. The police and military. Within their power can sometimes cause the rise of the question, how much power is too much power? Police brutality is an uprising and a modern day problem on a laundry list of issues our country is working to fix. …show more content…
Not only should we consider their training as a factor in their actions but also we should take a look at these public figures from a sociological approach. One way we analyze this si through the stanford prison experiment. This experiment is familiar to many people but isn’t paralleled to the United States police force as much as it is paralleled to corrections officers. The experiment was planned to last two weeks long but was terminated after three days due to outstanding results. The project was the idea of Standford led psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo placed participants as guards and prisoners for the two weeks. This allowed those who were “guards” to under the impression they had power over the “prisoners” even though they had done nothing to be imprisoned for. Some empowering examples of just drastic the result were as follows.The guards within only a few hours began to harass the inmates everyone began to fall into their “roles” just as we do in society. Issues truly began to get out of hand when the prisoners began to