Stanley Milgram conducted many experiments testing the social control, or the strategies that are meant to prevent deviant behavior (Schaefer). One experiment includes random people who were told to be performing a test on the effect of punishment on learning. A subject would receive the punishment of an electric shock while the other would administer the test and give the increasingly painful shock; however, the test was rigged to where the subject would always be administering the test and the “student” receiving the test would answer incorrect answers on purpose and act as if the electric shock got increasingly worse as it continued. In reality, the experiment observed the execution of orders from an authority figure no matter how immoral.
