Based on the Findings from the Stanley Milgram Obedience Study

question 42

Multiple Choice

Based on the findings from the Stanley Milgram obedience study, what would sociologists predict about people's relationship to authority?

• A) People will follow an authority figure's orders regardless of the pain they might be inflicting on others.
• B) People will organize and establish their own rules, eliminating the expert.
• C) People will establish relationships among themselves, creating an in-group and an out-group.
• D) No one will obey orders that have negative consequences for other people.

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