Augustine Brannigan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82747 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Augustine Brannigan |
| NOMBRES | Augustine |
| APELLIDO | Brannigan |
| FIRMA | BRANNIGAN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Calgary |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The archival turn in classical social psychology
Preservation of the research records of classical experiments in university archives has opened a new avenue of investigation for students of social psychology. In many cases, the records afford the observer with access to materials to explain the actual progress of the research as it transpired originally and permit the observer to assess the fidelity as well as the inconsistencies between what was accomplished and what was subsequently publishe…
Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
This article analyzes variations in subject perceptions of pain in Milgram’s obedience experiments and their behavioral consequences. Based on an unpublished study by Milgram’s assistant, Taketo Murata, we report the relationship between the subjects’ belief that the learner was actually receiving painful electric shocks and their choice of shock level. This archival material indicates that in 18 of 23 variations of the experiment, the mean level…
Confusing the Scientific and Moral Appeals of Suppressing Vice
Milgram, Genocide and Bureaucracy
The link between Stanley Milgram's experimental study of obedience in 1963 and the explanation of the Holocaust during the Second World War has been the subject of controversy for the past five decades. Russell and Gregory (2015) offer the latest reflections on this relationship. Hannah Arendt's analysis of Eichmann centred on the image of desk murderers mindlessly processing military orders. Milgram invoked pervasive evidence of compliance to mo…
Introduction to the special issue
The current issue of Theory & Psychology is devoted to Stanley Milgram and his contribution to the study of obedience. It presents a decidedly critical evaluation of these well-known experiments that challenges their relevance to our understanding of events such as the Holocaust. It builds on recent investigations of the Milgram archive at Yale. The discipline’s adulation of the obedience research overlooks several critical factors: the palpable …
Beyond the Banality of Evil
1. Genocide and the obedience paradigm 2. Three paradoxes of genocide in criminology 3. Labelling genocide: the constitutive problem 4. Explaining crime, explaining genocide: the control perspective 5. The psychogenesis and sociogenesis of genocide in Rwanda 6. Catalysts and accomplices 7. The limits of the criminal law 8. The civil remedy for genocide 9. Truth and reconciliation commissions: the third option 10. Conclusion: Beyond the banality o…
Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments
Is the Sun Setting on Cosmopolitan Justice
Humanism and realism in International Humanitarian Law
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology
This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments. Having examined the record from the inception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that it has failed to live up to its promise: that social psychologists have achieved little consensus about the central problems in the field; that they ha…
Real Science
The experimental turn in social psychology
"The real "Hawthorne effect
A Personal Take of Some Engaging Books from the Past Decade
On a recent sabbatical in New Zealand, I learned something of the vicissitudes of scholars who live and work in small countries. In New Zealand, there are only four universities with sociology departments. Scholars there who write books which analyze national questions and which are vital to the establishment of the discipline in NZ can expect print-runs measured in several hundreds of copies -- if they can find a publisher at all! What motivates…
Where East Meets West
Augustine Brannigan, Zhiqiu Lin, "Where East Meets West": Police, Immigration and Public Order Crime in the Settlement of Canada from 1896 to 1940, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 87-108
The Clustering of Severe Behavioural, Health and Educational Deficits in Canadian Children
II. The Psychology of Genocide
The Genesis of Adolescent Risk-Taking
Terrance J. Wade, Augustine Brannigan, The Genesis of Adolescent Risk-Taking: Pathways through Family, School, and Peers, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. 1-19
The Postmodern Experiment
Traditional debates over the validity of operationalization in psychological experiments overlook the fact that they often simply dramatize, as opposed to discover, telling social phenomena. Many landmark experiments survive otherwise fatal questioning of their validity because of their moral, ontological or pedagogical relevance. This proposition is examined in the context of the leading social influence studies. Postmodernism suggests that the …
Fashionable Despair
Claims of cross-institutional declines in cannot be gainsaid. Fashionable Despair about such declines may have foundations in important challenges to public institutions other than those based on alleged disarticulation between values and criteria. The claims of declining may be better examined in context of interest conflicts. And interest conflicts may be at level of basic values, not merely criteria designed to represent them. This discussion …
Practical Knowledge
Censorship and Libel
Juvenile Prostitution and Mental Health
Juvenile prostitution has been characterized alternatively as an expression of delinquency based on opportunity, and, as a form of pathological work chosen by adolescent victims of sexual abuse. Analysis of the trends in arrests for solicting in Canada suggest that the majority of persons arrested for soliciting are not juveniles. In addition, estimates of abuse in the background of prostitutes are extremely inconsistent. Questions are raised bot…
Artificial Intelligence and the Attributional Model of Scientific Discovery
Students of Artificial Intelligence (Al) will not be surprised by the extravagance of Slezak's claims that computer programs are capable of 'autonomously deriving classical scientific laws from the raw observational data'. ' One might infer that programs like Hal 9000 are humming away at solutions for the pressing social and medical problems of our times AIDS, cancer, nuclear disarmament, apartheid, foreign debt and the like. These are common eno…
State Control
The social basis of scientific discoveries
The Reification of Mendel
A re-examination of the case of Mendel suggests that he was neither ignored in the 1860s nor simply re-discovered in 1900. In 1900, the concern for priority among De Vries, Correns and Tschermak, and the controversy between Bateson and the biometricians over species variation, led scientists to reconstruct the relevance of Mendel's hybridization experiments with Pisum in terms of their own work on natural selection. By contrast, an examination of…
The Postmodern Experiment
Traditional debates over the validity of operationalization in psychological experiments overlook the fact that they often simply dramatize, as opposed to discover, telling social phenomena. Many landmark experiments survive otherwise fatal questioning of their validity because of their moral, ontological or pedagogical relevance. This proposition is examined in the context of the leading social influence studies. Postmodernism suggests that the …
Credibility as an Interactional Accomplishment
Although assumptions about "truthfulness" are necessarily involved in everyday social interaction, individuals rarely try explicitly to "test" one another's credibility. The trial court, and particularly the cross-examination of testimony, is one social occasion where such "testing" of credibility is done. In this article we analyze the cross-examination of a defendant accused of perjury in order to elucidate how credibility (or its lack) is esta…
Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
This article analyzes variations in subject perceptions of pain in Milgram’s obedience experiments and their behavioral consequences. Based on an unpublished study by Milgram’s assistant, Taketo Murata, we report the relationship between the subjects’ belief that the learner was actually receiving painful electric shocks and their choice of shock level. This archival material indicates that in 18 of 23 variations of the experiment, the mean level…
Real Science
"The real "Hawthorne effect
Juvenile Prostitution and Mental Health
Juvenile prostitution has been characterized alternatively as an expression of delinquency based on opportunity, and, as a form of pathological work chosen by adolescent victims of sexual abuse. Analysis of the trends in arrests for solicting in Canada suggest that the majority of persons arrested for soliciting are not juveniles. In addition, estimates of abuse in the background of prostitutes are extremely inconsistent. Questions are raised bot…
Multiple Discoveries in Science
Augustine Brannigan, Richard A. Wanner, Multiple Discoveries in Science: A Test of the Communication Theory, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 135-151
Historical Distributions of Multiple Discoveries and Theories of Scientific Change
After discussing the issues of validity and reliability in the measurement of multiple discoveries and their implications for testing alternative theories, we examine the mathematical assumptions underlying the Poisson distribution, and their correspondence to the theories. We find that a negatively contagious Poisson distribution is equally consistent with the observed distribution of grade of multiples, and since its basic assumptions are more …
The experimental turn in social psychology
The Genesis of Adolescent Risk-Taking
Terrance J. Wade, Augustine Brannigan, The Genesis of Adolescent Risk-Taking: Pathways through Family, School, and Peers, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. 1-19
Artificial Intelligence and the Attributional Model of Scientific Discovery
Students of Artificial Intelligence (Al) will not be surprised by the extravagance of Slezak's claims that computer programs are capable of 'autonomously deriving classical scientific laws from the raw observational data'. ' One might infer that programs like Hal 9000 are humming away at solutions for the pressing social and medical problems of our times AIDS, cancer, nuclear disarmament, apartheid, foreign debt and the like. These are common eno…
Milgram, Genocide and Bureaucracy
The link between Stanley Milgram's experimental study of obedience in 1963 and the explanation of the Holocaust during the Second World War has been the subject of controversy for the past five decades. Russell and Gregory (2015) offer the latest reflections on this relationship. Hannah Arendt's analysis of Eichmann centred on the image of desk murderers mindlessly processing military orders. Milgram invoked pervasive evidence of compliance to mo…
The Clustering of Severe Behavioural, Health and Educational Deficits in Canadian Children
III.2 The Phenomenon of Multiple Discoveries and the Re-Publication of Mendel's Work in 1900
Naturalistic and Sociological Models of the Problem of Scientific Discovery
Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology
This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments. Having examined the record from the inception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that it has failed to live up to its promise: that social psychologists have achieved little consensus about the central problems in the field; that they ha…
Where East Meets West
Augustine Brannigan, Zhiqiu Lin, "Where East Meets West": Police, Immigration and Public Order Crime in the Settlement of Canada from 1896 to 1940, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 87-108
Fashionable Despair
Claims of cross-institutional declines in cannot be gainsaid. Fashionable Despair about such declines may have foundations in important challenges to public institutions other than those based on alleged disarticulation between values and criteria. The claims of declining may be better examined in context of interest conflicts. And interest conflicts may be at level of basic values, not merely criteria designed to represent them. This discussion …
"Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner
Augustine Brannigan, Sheldon Goldenberg, Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner": The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 419-431
Language and Social Reality
Darwin in America
The Reification of Mendel
A re-examination of the case of Mendel suggests that he was neither ignored in the 1860s nor simply re-discovered in 1900. In 1900, the concern for priority among De Vries, Correns and Tschermak, and the controversy between Bateson and the biometricians over species variation, led scientists to reconstruct the relevance of Mendel's hybridization experiments with Pisum in terms of their own work on natural selection. By contrast, an examination of…
Naturalistic and Sociological Models of the Problem of Scientific Discovery
The social basis of scientific discoveries
III.2 The Phenomenon of Multiple Discoveries and the Re-Publication of Mendel's Work in 1900
Multiple Discoveries in Science
Augustine Brannigan, Richard A. Wanner, Multiple Discoveries in Science: A Test of the Communication Theory, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 135-151
Sociological Explanation as Translation
Historical Distributions of Multiple Discoveries and Theories of Scientific Change
After discussing the issues of validity and reliability in the measurement of multiple discoveries and their implications for testing alternative theories, we examine the mathematical assumptions underlying the Poisson distribution, and their correspondence to the theories. We find that a negatively contagious Poisson distribution is equally consistent with the observed distribution of grade of multiples, and since its basic assumptions are more …
The Social Basis of Scientific Discoveries
"Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner
Augustine Brannigan, Sheldon Goldenberg, Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner": The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 419-431
Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology
Pornography and Behavior
Journal Article Pornography and Behavior: Alternative Explanations Get access Augustine Brannigan Augustine Brannigan 1University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 1987, Pages 185–189, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1987.tb01002.x Published: 07 February 2006
The study of aggressive pornography
This paper reviews some crucial experimental studies of the behavioral consequences of exposure to violent or aggressive pornography and evaluates their validity and relevance as support for censoring pornography in the aftermath of the Meese Commission. We find this research deficient on a number of grounds. Many designs confound the effects of the stimuli with the anger of the subjects. The theoretical models consistently do not explain the res…
Sex and Aggression in the Lab
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Social Responses to Technological Change
Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences
Social Responses to Technological Change
Is obscenity criminogenic
Credibility as an Interactional Accomplishment
Although assumptions about "truthfulness" are necessarily involved in everyday social interaction, individuals rarely try explicitly to "test" one another's credibility. The trial court, and particularly the cross-examination of testimony, is one social occasion where such "testing" of credibility is done. In this article we analyze the cross-examination of a defendant accused of perjury in order to elucidate how credibility (or its lack) is esta…
Juvenile Prostitution and Mental Health
Juvenile prostitution has been characterized alternatively as an expression of delinquency based on opportunity, and, as a form of pathological work chosen by adolescent victims of sexual abuse. Analysis of the trends in arrests for solicting in Canada suggest that the majority of persons arrested for soliciting are not juveniles. In addition, estimates of abuse in the background of prostitutes are extremely inconsistent. Questions are raised bot…
Artificial Intelligence and the Attributional Model of Scientific Discovery
Students of Artificial Intelligence (Al) will not be surprised by the extravagance of Slezak's claims that computer programs are capable of 'autonomously deriving classical scientific laws from the raw observational data'. ' One might infer that programs like Hal 9000 are humming away at solutions for the pressing social and medical problems of our times AIDS, cancer, nuclear disarmament, apartheid, foreign debt and the like. These are common eno…
State Control
Censorship and Libel
Practical Knowledge
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