Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and ResponsibilitySergeant William Calley's defense of his behavior in the My Lai massacre and the widespread public support for his argument that he was merely obeying orders from a superior and was not personally culpable led Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton to investigate the attitudes toward responsibility and authority that underlie "crimes of obedience"--not only in military circumstances like My Lai but as manifested in Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Their book is an ardent plea for the right and obligation of citizens to resist illegal and immoral orders from above. |
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
Crimes of obedience: toward a social psychology of authority and responsibility
معاينة المستخدمين - Not Available - Book Verdict"A crime of obedience is an illegal or immoral act committed in response to orders or directives from authority.'' This stated, the authors, both social psychologists, proceed to examine the My Lai ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
المحتوى
Persistent Issues | 23 |
The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey | 53 |
The Structure of Authority | 77 |
The Dynamics of Authority | 103 |
Challenging Authority | 136 |
Public | 167 |
Responsibility in Authority Situations | 195 |
The Generality | 236 |
Individual Differences in Conceptions of Authority | 261 |
Three Orientations | 278 |
On Breaking the Habit of Unquestioning Obedience | 307 |
Appendix A Information about and Interest in the Calley | 341 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility Insert Data Here- |
| المؤلفون | Herbert C. Kelman, V. Lee Hamilton |
| الإصدار | غير مختصر |
| الناشر | Yale University Press, 1989 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0300048130, 9780300048131 |
| عدد الصفحات | 382 من الصفحات |
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