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pane00

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In his controversial study in which he led subjects to believe they were delivering painful shocks to innocent people, what social phenomenon was Stanley Milgram trying to understand?
 
  a. the difference between normal individuals and sociopaths
  b. the process through which normal individuals can be compelled to hurt others simply because they are told to
  c. the ways in which codes of conduct are violated by scientific professionals
  d. the situations in which society's deviants can thrive and flourish

Question 2

Illegal or underground earnings from crime or from untaxed (undeclared) work or activity are__________.
 
  a. income
  b. not income
  c. wealth
  d. neither income nor wealth



sabina576

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a



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