Purpose and function of these building blocks

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Newman tells us that “statuses, roles, groups, organizations and institutions are the building blocks of society. The purpose and function of these building blocks is to maintain social order, teach us how to behave, what to expect from others, how to reduce deviance, etc. What happened in the Milgram study that made the research subjects deviate from expectations, break norms, etc.? What norms about behavior were followed and what ones were broken?

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