On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote:
> As for the SPE, a central issue for me was the theme of 'depersonalisation' -
> ie. the structure of the experiment induced people to take up personalities
> which they thought fit in with the unequal power relations and through which
> they could understand their actions and situation. Maybe that's not the Kosher
> interpretation of it, but I don't think it is an entirely bad one.
Sorry, I guess I misunderstood your earlier posts. I think this is a quite reasonable interpretation of the SPE. However, to call it depersonalization is misleading: it's better to say the social structure facilitated specific subjectivities, particular personalities.
Miles