The film is full of sociological concepts. From the beginning, the guards were given weapons in the form of batons. Weapons are usually a sign of power especially over unarmed opponents. Prisoners were stripped naked a few times during the movie. At the start of the experiment, the prisoners were told to shower naked in view of everyone. This along with using numbers instead of names and dressing them in smocks were the start of the dehumanizing process. Like Berus said, humiliation did work in getting the prisoners under control. This level of power was addictive to Berus, who was probably teased in the real world. The other guards just latched onto him for his leadership.
In the beginning the prisoners seemed to be having a good time and joking with the guards. The guards took their roles seriously almost from the beginning. At some point even the prisoners forgot that it was an experiment and gave in to the guards" demands. Both sides participated in role-taking and role-making. The prisoners and guards acted in accordance with whatever uniform they had on. They also changed their behavior in response to the other side. Guards got a lot stricter when the prisoners did not do what they said. Prisoners reacted by conforming and trying to be good prisoners out of fear.
These roles challenged the self as well. The prisoners stopped believing they were taxi drivers or electricians and fell into their role as prisoners. The only one not affected at all was the air force pilot. Some of the others suffered from panic attacks or depression while trying to cope with this new role. They were told they were prisoners and treated like prisoners, so they believed it. The guards forgot their real identities also.
Even the professor and his assistants were fascinated by how well everyone fell into their roles. It does not take much to change how people act. A change of clothes and a set of rules and you have a whole new personality.
"Nothing in life comes easy,"" this popular quote shows us what not to do with influential things in our lives. If we let these influences show us that good things do come easy the world becomes a depressing place. That is why we need influences that are honest and show us how the world truly works....
The case of the hemophilia patient being converted into an AIDS patient was by sheer failure of the science in predicting the outcome of the experiments that were done on those patients. ... [Kleinman in Das:2000, 237] . ... All sorts of experiments were done on them. ...
Second, reduction refers to the use of minimum possible subjects that may be affected by experiment without losing the scientific rigor(Festing, Overend, Gaines Das, Cortina-Borja, & Berdoy, 2002). ... Studies like Watson and Rayner (1920) experiment with little Albert, Stanford prison experiment with students (Zimbardo & Cross, 1971) and many more that can be quoted, has compelled responsible to develop certain ethical guidelines to safeguard human safety and rights. ...
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social commentary. His mother, Henrietta, was originally from Holland and never became a German at heart, not even learning to speak the language properly. Shortly before Karl Marx was born, his father converted the family to the Evangelical Established Church, Karl being baptized at the age of six. ...
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social commentary. His mother, Henrietta, was originally from Holland and never became a German at heart, not even learning to speak the language properly. Shortly before Karl Marx was born, his father converted the family to the Evangelical Established Church, Karl being baptized at t...
Paul Miller creates a very heady experiment in film noir, playfully toying with stereotypes and old detective film standards. ... The murders are committed behind the curtain, as it were, depicted to the viewer only in shadows on the wall, looking much like old films such as Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (1919), Nosfaratu (1922), and countless other nefarious movies from the time period. ...
If not managed T2DM can lead to two groups of complications: acute (hyperglycemia hyperosmolar non-ketotic syndrome) and long-term (retinopathy, nephropathy, peripheral neuropathy, cardiovascular and sexual dysfunction) (Chandalia & Das, 2012). ... In addition, to the selected experiments the reference lists of the reviews in the area were searched to identify more studies. ...
