Philip Sidney

This paper will focus on two comparable instances of treatment within a prison atmosphere. One event is the Stanford Prison Experiment which is considered a renowned study conducted at Stanford University in California. The other is the Abu Ghraib prison scandal known for its controversy in 2004 surrounding the treatment of its prisoners during their incarceration there. In this paper I will provide details regarding each and ultimately compare how the abuse is similar to or different from what…

The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment is unethical and inhuman. It is also evidently a product of poor decision-making. If the scholar involved had considered using two individuals to take the roles of primary experimenter and prison superintendent, the experiment would not have advanced to the levels it did. Moreover, this independent individual would have interfered with the direction the experiment was taking. The experiment also shows the importance of an oversight…

The general reaction that I had toward this study was disgust and disappointment. The disgust was directed toward the relationship between authority figures and the inmates. Be it the guards or the "prison" superintendent, there were major flaws in this study that opened a flood gate of unethical practices. As for the disappointment, that reaction was solely triggered by the Zimbardo, the "prison superintendent". The manner in which these young men were allowed to treat their peers for the sake…

The basic purpose of this experiment was to see if the brutality reported among guards in prison was because of the situation and roles they were given or if it had to do more with their type of personality, and to see if prisoners lacked respect for law and order because of the situation they were in with the guards or if it had to do with personality as well. Mr. Zimbardo and his team chose a few men who answered to the newspaper AD and had them answer a questionnaire about their family…

The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by Phillip Zimbardo, a psychologist who wanted to test the conflict that volunteers would experience when put in situations where they were not in control. This experiment took men of the same ages and put them in a “prison” setting, giving them each the label of either guard or inmate. By grouping these men together in separate categories it demonstrated a form a social control. According to James Henslin, author of the book “Sociology: A Down- To-…

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…

The Stanford Prison Study Experiment took place from August 14 - 20, 1971. The experiment was held in the basement psychology building of Stanford University, where a fake prison was set up. Professor Philip Zimbardo led the experiment along with fellow graduate researchers, trying to figure out how the humans react to a situation where they a powerless. They picked several white male middle-class students to take part in the experiment. Half of the students were chosen to be “guards” and the…

individuals. Would they obey these orders? Or would they see how far they can take things before they are caught or told not to? With Zimbardo’s Stanford experiment we can see first-hand how a group of men with said power behave. In 1971 the study by Philip Zimbardo was constructed in the hope to analyze how regular people will react when given some power in a set environment and to show how a group of men will react when given a very broad task. A total of 24 college students were offered $15…

Mr. Ronson trades some of his typically inspired repartee with Tony, he makes a series of further shiver-inducing visits: to Saint Hill, the where he meets Bob Hare, who helped formulate the checklist of the title. Ronson decides to take part in bob hares 3 day tour in which will get into depth about bob hares findings. Ronson upon meeting bob hare, who he describes as a Yellow-white hair, red eye person who looked like he spent his entire life, battling psychopaths. Showing that bob hare is a…

Zimbardo implies says that people get morp by the the situation. This is proven with the guard. They immediately started to act like real security guards that treated the prisoners harshly. The prisoner with their humiliating clothes, and how the basement of the college looked the I believe he choose the situation over the personality trait, due to how through the experiment many of the individual personality shifted into their respective role, one prisoner started starving himself whereas…