What Values And Ethical Issues Did This Experiment Express?
PART A
1. What was your initial reaction to viewing the footage of this experiment?
Initially when I watched this experiment I felt sadden. One that is was necessary in the 70’s for this teacher to need to teach this lesson, but most of all how easily swayed these children were. They were so quick to demoralize their classmates, solely based on the fact the teacher told them they could. It is a reminder that children are most susceptible in their formative years. It also is a very important experiment as the use of children for social experiments is not very common, especially in a study like this.
2. What values and ethical issues did the experiment express?
The key issues I saw here are discrimination and institutional racism. Since institutional racism is directly related to when …show more content…
This would not be appropriate in our time now, though, as these factors are present in society, but not overwhelming like it was in the early 70’s.
PART B
1. What was your initial reaction to McIntosh's list?
I think the list seemed perhaps overzealous or a tad extreme. It was as those McIntosh was already biased of the “white privilege” she was encountering in her life. The list had things on that, given a white male being able to say they either did or have would not make them privileged. Also, from the list itself she seemed to already have formed her thought on white male privilege but was discriminating on all white males.
2. Do you think this is an accurate reflection of privilege in society during the 1970s and 1980s? Do you think it is relevant and accurate today? Why or why not?
I think it is a semi accurate reflection. While in this time many white males were privileged, or given every opportunity to succeed above their counterparts, not all were. There were many underprivileged white males and yet McIntosh seemed to be throwing them all into the same little
1. What was your initial reaction to viewing the footage of this experiment?
Initially when I watched this experiment I felt sadden. One that is was necessary in the 70’s for this teacher to need to teach this lesson, but most of all how easily swayed these children were. They were so quick to demoralize their classmates, solely based on the fact the teacher told them they could. It is a reminder that children are most susceptible in their formative years. It also is a very important experiment as the use of children for social experiments is not very common, especially in a study like this.
2. What values and ethical issues did the experiment express?
The key issues I saw here are discrimination and institutional racism. Since institutional racism is directly related to when …show more content…
This would not be appropriate in our time now, though, as these factors are present in society, but not overwhelming like it was in the early 70’s.
PART B
1. What was your initial reaction to McIntosh's list?
I think the list seemed perhaps overzealous or a tad extreme. It was as those McIntosh was already biased of the “white privilege” she was encountering in her life. The list had things on that, given a white male being able to say they either did or have would not make them privileged. Also, from the list itself she seemed to already have formed her thought on white male privilege but was discriminating on all white males.
2. Do you think this is an accurate reflection of privilege in society during the 1970s and 1980s? Do you think it is relevant and accurate today? Why or why not?
I think it is a semi accurate reflection. While in this time many white males were privileged, or given every opportunity to succeed above their counterparts, not all were. There were many underprivileged white males and yet McIntosh seemed to be throwing them all into the same little