tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2765009237184862809.post593421455936021638..comments2023-12-25T23:31:45.817-05:00Comments on General Psychology: Sandford Prison Experiment Question #9Pratt Psychologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628779524005457672noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2765009237184862809.post-11127737719742500242012-02-27T13:14:26.527-05:002012-02-27T13:14:26.527-05:00Would kids from a lower class environment have a b...Would kids from a lower class environment have a better chance at surviving in a prison situation, as opposed to kids from a middle class upbringing? I don't think that in a general sense kids from a working class would have a better chance of surviving life within a prison. However, I do think that they would handle specific stressors better. They would in all likelihood have a better chance enduring physical hardships with the prison. The reason for this is obviously because in their life, the have probably worked harder than the middle class kids. I think that both classes of kids would fair the same when it came to the emotion stresses. Once again this is based on the kids having a normal upbringing. I think that if we say that kids from a lower class have a more difficult and turbulent childhood at home. Then they would stand a better chance at surviving a prison system. We can see this from our current prison system. Lower class crimes get people sent to blue collar prisons, while middle class crimes get you sent to white collar prisons. I’m not saying all lower class members commit blue collar crimes, nor am I saying that everyone in the middle class commits white collar crimes. I am just making general statements.<br /><br />How would women react when put in this sort of situation. I think that we would still see that women put into the prisoner role would react similar to men placed into that role. However I think that women placed into the role of guard would be different than their male counterparts. I believe we would be able to see this the best in the women who took on the roles of the “bad” guard. I think that unlike the men, the would not enforce their power through physical punishment and torture. I think that they would use more psychological and emotional means to break their captives. We can see this when we look at photos of the Abu Ghraib prison. The men in the photos are shown beating the prisoners and physically torturing them. While the women are shown humiliating and dehumanizing their captives.daunishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249785872142863313noreply@blogger.com