The article “Group Minds” written by Doris Lessing, makes the argument that humans in western society are group animals. Group animals with the tendency to conform our thoughts to accommodate the current group rather than our own personalities. Lessing feels that our lack of being able to recognize this conformity will keep us from improving ourselves in society. The authors lack of a psychological background leaves one to believe that Lessing is biased. Lessing’s high school education at an all-girls Roman Catholic school, may have shaped her to view everyone as groups of a high school, cliques. Therefore, the opinions presented in Doris Lessing’s article are given without proper validity creating an unflattering view of western society, and additional
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Although, Lessing does cause the reader to think and recall personal experience, the examples given in the article are very vague. Lessing’s examples skim the surface of psychological experiments that support her opinionated guess, that the minority will give into the majority. In comparison to Stanley Milgram’s article, The Perils of Obedience, Milgram provides a very deep description of his main idea that “obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct.” (631). Milgram is referring to the obedient minds that we have acquired by listening to authority figures and the fact that under certain circumstances one may go against their own morals to obey. While Milgram’s background does differ from Lessing, in that he is a psychologist from Yale, but that is not the only reason Milgram’s article holds more credibility. Milgram is more credible than Lessing, because he goes into depth about the experiment and gives the reader factual numbers and eye opening content from the
Although, Lessing does cause the reader to think and recall personal experience, the examples given in the article are very vague. Lessing’s examples skim the surface of psychological experiments that support her opinionated guess, that the minority will give into the majority. In comparison to Stanley Milgram’s article, The Perils of Obedience, Milgram provides a very deep description of his main idea that “obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct.” (631). Milgram is referring to the obedient minds that we have acquired by listening to authority figures and the fact that under certain circumstances one may go against their own morals to obey. While Milgram’s background does differ from Lessing, in that he is a psychologist from Yale, but that is not the only reason Milgram’s article holds more credibility. Milgram is more credible than Lessing, because he goes into depth about the experiment and gives the reader factual numbers and eye opening content from the