Radical Man

Seminal work on the psychology of self development applied to social development.

Search the Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3627017W/Radical_man

Notes

• 106 -Those of us who needlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.
• P122 - Kohlberg's moral judgment scale. For obedience vs rebelliousness (principles)
• P148 - definition of creative vs uncreative research engineering departments
• P192 - Theory Y - on making workers self-mamging and thus growing in responsibility.
• Asch and Crutchford experiment showed that integrity drops from 80% to 40% as people want to confirm to others' views. See p. 98.
• Those who rebelled at the Milgram Experiment were more developed psycho-social than the obedient majority. 78% pulled the trigger for horrendous pain, 65% at life-threatening pain. 30% would knowingly torture - actually force the subject's hand to the shock plate! Consistent with the The Best and the Brightest. It would be interesting to see how the same test would fare at a more earthy A&M university, or at a more progressive school. P. 99.
• Totalitarians are willing to subject themselves to a strong authority to repair them by force? P.93
• Another source of meaningless and repetitive activity is the work that many people must do
• Competence is enhancing the development of others
• Individualism and cooperation are only two of the many false dichotomies over which men deadlock and thereby proclaim their psycho-social infancy.