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Zimbardo: The Pathology of Imprisonment SOC 100

he took a bunch of students and from ivy league schools in california and he essentially created the mock prisons and he asked he assigned a few of those students to be prisoners and a few of those students to be the guards and within six days it had become such a dystopia it's such cruelty emerged out of this experiment that they had to shut it down i think it was supposed to go on for six weeks and they had to shut it down within six days the students who were assigned to be prison guards adopted such cruel measures psychologically and physically such abusive measures that it just experiments couldn't go on prisons are such bad places they are breeding grounds for cruelty prison system is bad 1 What is Zimbardo’s main argument? people are not in themselves good or bad any of us could become bad if we are put within these institutions such as such as prisons is the is the social environment it's the structure it's the institution that can bring the worst out of

um any of us so he actually argues that any of us can actually become abusive if we are put in that kind of circumstace 3 What do you think of his argument that any of us, under the “right” circumstances, could become like a servile prisoner or a brutal prison guard? Do you think you would? Why? 4 What suggestions does Zimbardo have for reforming prisons? Note that this piece was written in 1972. 5 Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist. But do you think that his arguments are sociological? Can you identify which parts of his work are more psychological and which parts sociological?...