Morality in the Making of Sense and Self

Matthew M. Hollander is Sociology Faculty at Marion Technical College (Marion, Ohio). He has authored or co-authored over 15 academic articles and chapters in social psychology, sociological theory, and health science. His race textbook Racial and Ethnic Diversity: A Sociological Introduction (2021) contributes to diversity education in central Ohio at the high school and two-year college levels.Jason Turowetz is Sociology Instructor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-author (with Douglas W. Maynard) of Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis (2022) and has authored or co-authored over 30 academic articles and chapters on the sociology of medicine and diagnosis, autism, the Milgram experiments, race, social psychology, and social theory.

• Preface Introduction: Morality and Milgram Part I. The Moral Order of InteractionChapter 1. Moral Science and the Milgram ParadigmChapter 2. Morality in the Making of Sense and Self Part II. Morality in Milgram's Lab: Interaction During the ExperimentChapter 3. Situated Moral Practice: Resistance in Milgram's LabChapter 4. Forms of Milgramesque ResistanceChapter 5. Self- and Other-Attentive Resistance Part III. Current Debates: Interaction in the Post-Experiment InterviewChapter 6. Explaining Milgramesque BehaviorsChapter 7. Milgram, Science, and MoralityChapter 8. Conclusion Appendix 1: Data and MethodologyAppendix 2: Transcription ConventionsReferences Index

This book makes important contributions to both the sociology of morality and Milgram scholarship. The sociology of morality tends to treat the products of interaction—sense and self—as its antecedents, overlooking the social processes that constitute morality. Through close examination of interaction in Milgram's experiments, Hollander and Turowetz show that his experimental context similarly depends on collaborative orders of sensemaking that were left out of the analysis. Like the sociology of morality, Milgram's account of his experiments erased the practices that comprised them—making it seem as if participants willingly obeyed orders to hurt others when they had actually resisted and made appeals to morality.