7 October 2013 Synthesis Over Obedience In this chapter on the research of obedience‚ studying the psychological actions and reactions‚ the implications brought forth are the surprising effects of simple commands and the subliminal influence. The articles “The Perils of Obedience”‚ by Stanley Milgram‚ and “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ by Solomon E. Asch‚ both exhibit the traits of simple‚ ordinary test subjects following orders and actions by someone who is illustrated to have power or the general
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Milgram’s infamous 1963 study into the nature of obedience is often portrayed in the media as strong evidence for an innate human predisposition to obedience‚ “resistance is futile” (Parker‚ 2007) when it comes to the human condition to obey – even in a “destructive” (Milgram‚ 1963) sense. As Milgram (1963) himself states‚ obedience as a concept is one of the most fundamental aspects of society‚ and much has frequently been made of drawing parallels with the atrocities carried out by the Third Reich
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Obedience to Our Parents To be obedient is to obey the orders of one’s elders and superiors. There cannot be order unless there is obedience. One has to obey the laws of the country‚ otherwise the society cannot exist. The laws may be irksome‚ but‚ for the overall good of the law one must obey them. For instance‚ the laws to be obeyed on the road ensures road safety. The laws pertaining to property help society continue without hitches and hindrances. Even in our body our limbs obey the commands
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destructive obedience is not a consequence of moral weakness or an evil character; rather it is a response to a particular set of situational factors. Evaluate this statement. In order to evaluate this statement it is important to first understand what Milgram meant. This essay will first consider what is meant by destructive obedience and briefly look at Milgram’s work. It will then look at what is inferred by situational factors‚ focusing on conformity‚ socialisation‚ obedience to authority
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“destructive obedience”. Milgram’s interest in researching “destructive obedience” came from the Holocaust. “Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose”. Milgram’s experiment proposed that the murder of innocent people occurred because of the obedience from the soldiers to their leader. The experiment focuses on analyzing on why the degree of obedience from each subject varies from their actions. Milgram’s experiment makes it transparent that obedience is a
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Basically‚ he had trained an accomplice who would pretend to have electric shocks. The experimental subjects were placed in front of a dial‚ which they were told would administer an increasing levels of electric shocks to the actor. They asked the subject a series of straightforward word pair questions‚ and when he got the answers wrong‚ they had to give an electric shock. The subjects were told that this was part of an experiment‚ by someone in a white coat. In one case‚ the subject was informed
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Stanley Milgram is a famous psychologist who focused his studies on authority and peoples reaction and obedience to it. His famous experiment and it’s results were groundbreaking in psychology‚ surprising both psychologists and regular people alike. First I will discuss the reason for Milgrims study of obedience to authority. Then I will explain the experiment‚ its formulation‚ and its results. Finally I will cover the influence of the experiment on psychology and society. Stanley Milgrim was
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1984 by George Orwell depicts a dystopian future England where Big Brother controls all aspects of life. The people are divided into educated Party members and common Proles. Through a simple literary style and simile that likens the Proles to animals‚ Orwell illustrates the loss of individuality that occurs in a totalitarian regime‚ which makes the people easy to control. In this passage‚ Orwell talks about the lives of the Proles. His simple style of writing emphasizes the lack of sophistication
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all societies‚ there exists social influences that are known as conformity and obedience. These are traits that can be encountered in almost all societies. Both obedience and conformity involve social influence and have the ability to encourage an individual to engage in a certain behaviour. This can be done with or without the recipient of the social influence being aware that he or she is under social influence. Obedience can be seen as pressure being exerted from an individual that carries a sense
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An obedience experiment directed by Milgram (1974) involved the participant in a laboratory environment as the role of a teacher‚ pertaining to the effects of punishment on learning (Gibson 2011). Participants were deceived by being told that as part of the experiment they were required to administer an electric shock to the ‘learner’. The participants’ had observed the ‘learners’ (who were confederate in the experiment) in an adjoining room being secured to a chair. The participants were informed
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