The participants who acted as "teachers"in Milgram's classic social control experiment obeying the experimenter's orders to shock the "learner"were described by Milgram as acting obediently, because they were accustomed to submitting to impersonal authority figures in the social world. Which sociological perspective explains the organization of North American society in this way?

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The structural functionalist perspective views society as a complex system with parts working together to promote stability and order. It explains social behavior in terms of the roles and norms that maintain social order, such as obedience to authority figures.

The Participants Who Acted as "Teachers"in Milgram's Classic Social Control