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Arguing, Obeying and Defying: A Rhetorical Perspective on Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments

Arguing, Obeying and Defying: A Rhetorical Perspective on Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments

Gibson, Stephen

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General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1108421334
ISBN13: 9781108421331
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 7 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.50 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments are among the most influential and controversial scientific studies ever conducted. The experiments are commonly understood to have shown how easily people can be led into harming another person, simply as a result of following orders. Recently, however, Milgram's studies have been subjected to a sustained critique and re-evaluation. This book draws on the vast stock of audio recordings from Milgram's experiments to reveal how these experiments can be understood as occasions for argumentation and rhetoric, rather than showing how passive subjects can be led into simply doing as they are told. In doing so, it reconsiders what we understand by 'obedience' and extends how social psychologists have understood rhetoric itself.

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