SOCIOLOGY UNIT TWO RESEARCH FILM CRITIQUE
“The Milgram Obedience Experiment”
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1. How is the researcher dressed?
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If you had to describe his everyday job based on how he is dressed, what would you say his job
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3. Initially, the researcher introduces the project to the participants as a study of what?
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How does the researcher describe the design of this experiment to the participants?
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5. What concern does the “learner” express regarding the experiment?
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When the “teacher” expresses some skepticism, what does the researcher tell him?
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7. The next “teacher” laughed when giving an electric shock to the “learner”, what was his
explanation for this?
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8.
14 of the subject “teeachers” exhibited bouts of nervous laughter, what does this say to you
about their emotional reaction to inflicting pain on someone else?
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9. What is revealed as the true purpose of this study?
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10. What safeguards for ethical considerations were made with and for the study participants?
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11. What percentage of the subjects fully obeyed the experimenter and went to the highest voltage
available on the board?
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12. Whom did the researcher say was responsible for any pain inflicted on the “learner,” but yet
who was actually inflicting the “pain?”
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13. Define the problem this study attempted to answer?
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14. What might your hypothesis have been in answer to that problem prior to seeing the
experiment?
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15. Was this experiment done gathering more quantitative or qualitative information?
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16. Describe some of the qualitative research gathered?
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17. What type of interview was used in the “debriefing” of the study participant?
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18. What type of research is this?
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19. What does this study say about how members of society view scientists?
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20. What were the dependent and independent variables in this study?
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21. What was at least one of the indicators used in this study?
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22. What qualitative data was gathered in this study?
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23. Describe how triangulation was done in this study?
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24. What research ethical concerns were brought up in this study?
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25. What was the conclusion of this study?
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26. What aspects of society could these conclusions be applied to?
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27. Describe how this study would be viewed by a post modern interpretivist?
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28. Describe how this study would be viewed by an empirical positivist?
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