Many individuals don’t know how much research there is in sociology, in sociology there is a research method they follow to get results. Case Study Research is when an investigator studies an individual or even a small group with an untypical condition or situation. Next is survey research which demands interviewing or administering questionnaires or written surveys to massive number of people. Observational research requires instantly observing subjects reactions either doing a laboratory in a lab or in a natural setting. Then you have correlation al research which displays a relationship between two variables or factors that tend to change over time. Factors that tend to change are events, attitudes, characteristics, and certain behaviors.
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The experiment that was conduct was for 24 college undergrad students, who were placed in a jail and treated like prisoners. Students were divided up equally into two groups of 12. Some were guards and others were prisoners. They wanted this to be an experiment to see how many people would react to evil. It all begin by transforming the classrooms in the basement of Stanford University into jail cells. This way the reaction the volunteers get will be a different approach to things as if were a real prison. Which wasn’t hard to believe because the students really thought they were. Guards started their role as soon as the prisoners enter, their clothes were stripped off of them, and they were no longer able to keep their names. Instead they begin to be recognized by numbers. This put prisoners in the mindset as if they were really in jail. Their ankles were chained for they wouldn’t forget they were inmates in a correctional …show more content…
This experiment revealed how certain individuals personalities of humans could become overpower when they receive different positons of charge. Being in charge is a serious matter to people especially in this case. Would people rather be a guard or prisoners in a situation like this? They would prefer to be a guard because guards have way more rights than prisoners. Also not only did this experiment show us how given a position of higher authority changes individuals but also emotions change individuals as well. The prisoner’s reactions in all this was very predictable. We all are people and being put in a situation like that they you never been in is harsh. They had to learn to adapt to their living situations, being stripped from their names and given numbers had to be very difficult. As a learning experience for them they probably will never be the same after all they were put them in this experiment it change them in many ways. However, not all prisoners felt that way other prisoners says they were just acting out the role, we will never
The experiment that was conduct was for 24 college undergrad students, who were placed in a jail and treated like prisoners. Students were divided up equally into two groups of 12. Some were guards and others were prisoners. They wanted this to be an experiment to see how many people would react to evil. It all begin by transforming the classrooms in the basement of Stanford University into jail cells. This way the reaction the volunteers get will be a different approach to things as if were a real prison. Which wasn’t hard to believe because the students really thought they were. Guards started their role as soon as the prisoners enter, their clothes were stripped off of them, and they were no longer able to keep their names. Instead they begin to be recognized by numbers. This put prisoners in the mindset as if they were really in jail. Their ankles were chained for they wouldn’t forget they were inmates in a correctional …show more content…
This experiment revealed how certain individuals personalities of humans could become overpower when they receive different positons of charge. Being in charge is a serious matter to people especially in this case. Would people rather be a guard or prisoners in a situation like this? They would prefer to be a guard because guards have way more rights than prisoners. Also not only did this experiment show us how given a position of higher authority changes individuals but also emotions change individuals as well. The prisoner’s reactions in all this was very predictable. We all are people and being put in a situation like that they you never been in is harsh. They had to learn to adapt to their living situations, being stripped from their names and given numbers had to be very difficult. As a learning experience for them they probably will never be the same after all they were put them in this experiment it change them in many ways. However, not all prisoners felt that way other prisoners says they were just acting out the role, we will never