The Ethical Frontier

#9 - The Milgram Experiment | Matt Hollander and Jason Turowetz


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Dr. Matt Hollander joined Marion Technical College in 2019 as a Sociology faculty member.

Website: https://www.mtc.edu/directory/hollander_matthew.html
Dr. Turowetz is a lecturer at UC Santa Barbara.
Website: https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/people/jason-turowetz
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Morality-Making-Sense-Self-Experiments/dp/0190096047
Summary:
In this interview, Dr. Matt Hollander and Jason Turowetz discuss their new book Morality in the Making of Sense and Self, in which they provide a new interpretation of the Milgram Experiment's findings. Introducing an original theoretical framework in the sociology of morality, they show that, contrary to traditional understandings of Milgram's experiments that highlight obedience, virtually all subjects, both compliant and defiant, mobilized practices to resist the authority's commands, such that all were obedient and disobedient to varying degrees.

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