Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA22253 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 21 May 2002 22:12:45 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:04:08 +0100 Subject: RE: The Experiment From: Steve Drew <sd014a6399@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B91074D7.3C6%sd014a6399@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200205211158.MAA21284@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:48:19 +0100
> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: The Experiment
>
> <I have only seen the first episode so far. Some interesting stuff
> emerging .
>> The only quibble I have is that it nowhere near a recreation of Zimbardo's
>> Expt (not surprisingly!). The age demographics are far more spread out
>> than
>> the originals, so the participants have had more practice and experience
>> of
>> the uses and abuses of power. Could they have been afraid that if they
>> used
>> young (early 20's) males that they would encounter the same problems? At
>> what age are many people radicalised? It seems to me to be at about the
>> same
>> age as Zimbardo's original participants.
>>
>> Your thoughts on this?>
>>
> Yeah, one of the problems it seems to me is that the people they've
> picked are deliberately from a range of backgrounds. The second episode is
> particularly interesting in this regard, when they send an experienced union
> negotiator in to see what he can do.
Just watched it. Very good. The most interesting point was when the Scouser
at the end sussed it straight away.
> But otherwise, I'm not sure about when
> people become radicalised, or for that matter more likely to be conformist,
> or if there are periods when either is the case. There's the folk wisdom
> that teenagers are more rebellious, but just may be symptomatic of
> contemporary culture, I dunno.
>
> Vincent
Been considering what I said. It is only in the last Century or so that many
people have had a say in their own lives. Not many had a choice or if they
did it was limited. Now people can choose to say no. Do's that sound too
simplistic?
Regards
Steve
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