In hindsight, what was the primary flaw of the Stanford Prison ...

[justinmsk]

In hindsight, what was the primary flaw of the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in the 1970s?
 
  a. Confidentiality of the participants was violated.
  b. The experiment inflicted harm on its participants.
  c. The researchers lacked professional competence.
  d. The study did not draw on a proper sample.

Question 2

How and why do interest groups tend to work to maintain social structure?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[jlaineee]

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

An interest group is an organization that is established to promote the concerns of a group or business corporation. These groups act in a way that will further the growth and profit of their given interests. These interest groups will fight to protect and extend existing social arrangements when they are viewed as beneficial to their members. This also works in the case of social hierarchies, where members of a dominant group have strong incentives to maintain their privileges. Similar dynamics exist in social institutions. For example, institutions create jobs, and the workers in those jobs have incentives to try to maintain the institution.