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    Abstract Conformity‚ peer pressure and obedience are an on-going issue in almost every society. This essay looks into three areas of social influences‚ namely: conformity (which involves changing ones thoughts or behaviours to align with someone else’s)‚ compliance (which involves changing behaviour due to requests made by someone) and obedience (which involves a change in behaviour in response to another’s order). The purpose of the essay is to look at the similarities and differences between the

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    Abstract To understand Fromm’s mechanisms of escape—authoritarianism‚ destructiveness‚ and automaton conformity—one must obtain an understanding of Fromm basic premise for humanity and society which is overall positive. Reviewing the mechanisms of escape can assist one in understanding how an individual can be ruled by another‚ take one’s own life‚ or become lost in society. Fromm’s book‚ Escape from Freedom‚ can be used to teach individuals and society‚ as a whole‚ how to better understand one

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    Discuss Research Into Obedience (12 marks) Milgram did a lab experiment‚ varying different situational pressures to see which had the greatest effect on obedience. He told 40 male volunteers that it was a study of how punishment affects learning. After drawing lots‚ the real participant was assigned the role of ’teacher’. The learner was a confederate. The teachers job was to administrate a learning task and deliver ’electric shocks’ to the learner (in another room) if he got a question wrong

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    easily induced into giving a stranger an electric shock of 450V (enough to kill someone). 100% of people could be influenced into giving a 275V shock. The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram (1963) Experiment: Focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Investigate: Whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. Milgram selected participants for his experiment by advertising

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    participants”? The answer to these questions is of course “No.” The participants were indeed average people who came from all walks of life. They were young‚ old‚ rich‚ poor‚ educated and uneducated. So what accounts for their obedience? Milgram says the essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes and therefore no longer regards himself as responsible

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    Obedience to Orders 1 Obedience to Orders PFC Prashasouk BMMSC Obedience to Orders 2 This essay is to stress my belief on the importance of obedience to all orders. The importance of following all orders is the way all branches of the military operate on a day to day basis. Obeying all orders is the reason a military can operate in an organized and effective manner. If members of the military did not obey orders faithfully

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    Daoism and Confucianism are two of China’s oldest and most pervasive philosophies. They arose during the same period in Chinese history‚ called the Hundred Schools of Thought‚ a time often marred by unrest and feudal strife. Both philosophies reflect this‚ as their overarching goals are to seek order and harmony in one’s life‚ relationship with society‚ and the universe. Confucianism is a philosophy originated by the Chinese philosopher‚ Confucius‚ which teaches that logic and reason can solve

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    Child And Youth Assesment | March 28 2013 | | The Seeds of Discouragement in Work With Young People. | ORIGINALITY SCORE: 0% Table Of Contents. THE SEEDS OF DICOURAGEMENT IN WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE 3 What is assessment? 3 The four Ecological Hazards and it’s link to the Profiles in Discouragement 3 10 D’S of Deviance 5 The impact of positive personal theories of behavior 6 Impact on Assessment if the child or youth feels discouraged by an interaction with a CYCW 7 Conclusion:

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    The Milgram ExperimentOne of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963).  Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. The experiments began in July 1961‚ a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiment to answer the question "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust

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    “Human history began with an act of disobedience‚ and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience” (Fromm‚ 1981‚ ¶1). Comparing this statement to the historical idea that obedience is a virtue and disobedience is a vice is the basis of Erich Fromm’s essay entitled “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” (1981). Referencing historical and biblical accounts‚ Fromm claims that mankind was not human until the point of the first disobedient act‚ at which point the

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