Author: austinw

Obedience/Conformity to Legitimate Authority Figures

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For my module 5 react post, I spoke about a qualitative research paper I completed for my undergraduate degree. My paper discussed obedience to authority figures; for my paper, I used Stanley Milgram’s experiment as my primary inspiration. The fundamental question I attempted to answer was: why do individuals obey orders they know are wrong? […]

Addressing the Victim to Offender Cycle

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Throughout this semester in our class discussions, I have spoken in fragments about my experience working with child victims of sexual abuse. In one particular post, I spoke with another classmate about the unfortunate cycle of victim to perpetrator, which I would like to address later in this post. To first provide some background on […]