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Crimes of obedience : toward a social psychology of authority and responsibility
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- Creator
- Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]
- ©1989
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300041842, 0300041845
- OCLC
- ocm19056909
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 351-367.
- 1. The My Lai massacre: a military crime of obedience -- 2. The scope of crimes of obedience: recent cases, persistent issues -- 3. The duty to obey and the duty to disobey -- 4. The structure of authority -- 5. the dynamics of authority -- 6. Challenging authority -- 7. Attitudes and norms about obedience: public reactions to the Calley trial -- 10. Assertion and denial of responsibility: the generality of reactions to crimes of obedience -- 11. Individual differences in conceptions of authority and responsibility -- 12. Rules, roles, and values: three orientations to authority -- 13. On breaking the habit of unquestioning obedience -- Appendix A. Information about and interest in the Calley trial: findings from the 1971 survey -- Appendix B. Differences between the 1971 and 1976 survey populations
Subjects
- Authority.
- Obedience -- Political aspects.
- Political crimes and offenses -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Military discipline -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- Public opinion.
- Military discipline -- United States -- Public opinion.
- Public opinion -- United States.