Kelman and Hamilton's Three Social Processes
Kelman and Hamilton identify "three social processes that tend to create ... conditions" favorable to actions that participants might otherwise find morally objectionable. These three social process these are (1) authorization, (2) routinization, and (3) dehumanization. Are these three processes useful for explaining the results of Stanley Milgram's laboratory studies about obedience? Why or why not?
Take a short paragraph to summarize in your own words Kelman and Hamilton's three social processes. The key here is to summarize concisely! Reminder: we read the essay in which Kelman and Hamilton present those three social processes.
You should also devote paragraph to quickly summarizing the procedure of Milgram's experiments. This paragraph, too, can be fairly short; you will be getting into more detail in subsequent paragraphs.
The meat of your essay should systemically consider whether there are examples of authorization, routinization, and dehumanization in the Milgram studies. And, of course, you'll have to explain why the examples fit the concepts they do. This part will probably require three or four substantial paragraphs.
Finally, take a paragraph to summarize your thinking on these points.
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Kelman and Hamilton identified three social processes: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization as essential to the sanction massacre. These processes are vital to describing Stanley Milgram's findings involving the study of obedience. Depending on the outcomes of Milgram's study, Kelman and Hamilton denote that every person's conception of personal accountability for actions exercised under higher orders is responsible for determining their willingness to reject immoral or unlawful orders from a valid authority. People who practice civil disobedience are perceived as paradigmatic of the law-biding citizen since they refuse to comply with authorities, which they perceive to be morally wrong. Kelman and Hamilton's study demonstrates that society has socialized people who do not question the orders they perform, leading to crimes of obedience.
Authorization argues that sanctioned massacre happens in a setting of an authority giving orders or tacitly authorizing the killing. Through authorization,