authority and its rules are respected by people in the community through acts of obedience. Authority is not only the government laws‚ but can also be people with a higher status‚ such as parents‚ teachers‚ or employment managers. As long as people obey those with authoritative power‚ they will receive rewards‚ or at least avoid punishment‚ even when the command requires unjust actions towards another person. For example‚ Hitler’s propaganda that made the Germans believe that the Jews were the source
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What is the nature of obedience? A question that two leading scientists of the 1960’s tried to answer. At the heart of the cycle of enquiry stands Stanley Milgram with his initial experiment on obedience performed in 1963. The research results were so notorious that it determined scientists like Charles Hofling to replicate the study‚ and in 1966‚ he completed a conceptual replication of Milgram’s experiment. First we will look at how the two studies explore a similar topic using a different design
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The article named ‘’Review of Stanley Milgramss Experiments on Obedience’’ by Diana Baumrind looks at Milgrams experiment of learning‚ and then discusses whether Milgram violated the rights of his subjects‚ or did a beneficial experiment for humanity. In the article‚ the procedure of the experiment in a laboratory is described. It involves a participant who gives a victim increasing electric shocks as punishments in the context of a learning experiment. In this environment some of the subjects
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In this experiment explores the idea that obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. We as human beings are prone to obey‚ it is in our nature rooted from our ancestors; we obey to fit in and stay in the social trends. Milgram’s experiment was simple‚ it
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the field of Psychology has prospered‚ giving way to a more in depth knowledge and understanding of people’s social interactions with one another and what drives those connections. 20th century psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ executed a series of Obedience to Authority test on random participants. As seen in the YouTube videos online and in class‚ Milgram’s study found that over 65% of the participants carried out the experiment‚ despite potentially hurting someone‚ due to the authority figure urging
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Total Domination and Forced Obedience Total domination and forced obedience is not a constructive or efficient way to lead others. For example‚ Lao-tzu says that a good leader or government should let their citizens or subjects live their lives the way they want to. “When the Master governs‚ the people are hardly aware that he exists.” (A World Of Ideas pg. 22) Hannah Ardent is the exact opposite. She says “Total domination‚ which strives to organize the infinite plurality and differentiation
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right thing to do. Obedience is key for these type of issues. Just like when parents tell their children to do chores‚ they are gonna take that command and do what they are told. Why do we do that? That’s what we are trying to find out with the Milgram Experiment. Some people just aren’t leaders. Some just like to be told what to do so they have next to no responsibility. They don’t like to worry about what happens if something goes wrong. “Germans were particularly obedience to authority figures
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson tells us about the absurdness of blind obedience. The story begins when the people of the village began to gather in the square. Some of the children are gathering stones. The narrator was like making a warning earlier in the story by mentioning the pile of stones and the way the older people distance themselves from it. "They stood together‚ away from the pile of stones in the corner‚ and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed
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our moral of ethnical problem with the order that are ordain to us? Regarding this matter of disobedience as being “a psychological and moral problem” according to the author Eric Fromm‚ I would like to point out the concept of “autonomous obedience‚” which gives us an opportunity to rely on our “own powers and to become fully human‚” hence gaining our own knowledge‚ intellect‚ independence and freedom by being dictate by our very own “humanistic conscience” that helps and guides us to
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Devin Crockrel Shannon Smith Eng 112 18 June 2013 Obedience to Authority: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” “The Stanford Prison Experiment” was a well-known and controversial study. It took place in 1973 and delved into the human psyche behind roles of authority‚ and obedience. The setting was a controlled prison environment at Stanford University. The experiment was meant to study the process in which “guards” and “prisoners” learn to become obedient‚ and an authoritarian. The subjects
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