Obedience and Responsibility In Stanley Milgram’s‚ “The Perils of Obedience”‚ Milgram states “The essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes‚ and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.” (Milgram 6) Through his experiments he shows how we obey commands against our better judgment. It my belief that we are generally obedient as long as someone else assumes responsibility for the outcome. Therefore
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In The Perils of Obedience‚ Stanley Milgram expresses his findings of an experiment he conducted trying to prove the lengths people will go to be obedient to authority. The first experiments included a group of undergraduates from Yale. The experiments involved three subjects: the experimenter‚ the “teacher” and the “learner”. The teacher would read off a series of words. The learner‚ who is strapped to an electric chair‚ would be required to remember the words associated to one another. If the
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individuals’ shoes‚ but that cannot be determined. Conversely‚ the Milgram experiment‚ however controversial‚ proves that a vast majority of people‚ in the right circumstances‚ will physically harm another person based on the orders of a superior. It is hard to refute scientific evidence and statistics. To further this‚ outside observers constantly iterate that regardless of how morally superior one feels outside of the experiment‚ you‚ too would succumb under the pressure. To that I’d say: I probably
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Only Obedience or the Beginnings of a Cult? In a magazine article titled Obedience to Authority‚ published in 1974 by Harper’s magazine‚ Dr. Stanley Milgram studied the effects of authority on “ordinary” people. His findings were astonishing. The obedience to authority figures‚ with no threat of repercussion‚ was not only underestimated‚ but unimaginable. The constant willingness to comply with what was asked of them reminded me of the cult led by Charles Manson‚ specifically the Sharon Tate
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Obedience is the act of practicing obeying; dutiful or submissive compliance. Humans have an instinct to obey because of the role authority plays. Milgram’s research proves my point in his case study that involved shocks of voltage. From birth‚ we learn that everything has a consequence or punishment after an action. Children learn simple philosophies in their youngest age such as obeying their parent’s requests. Something as simple as eating vegetables has a consequence. A reward gives the child
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Contrasting among Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance- all are human behaviors. Let’s look at the following incidents- 1. The student followed his teacher’s orders. 2. The parents bought a crib for their new born baby. 3. The factory implemented all the safety measures (for its workers) set by the Government. In the first example above‚ we see the student doing as he was told by his teacher. That means he obeyed the teacher‚ which is obedience. In the
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tell you to do something and you did it without even considering otherwise? From an early age‚ we are conditioned to respond immediately when an authority figure gives us an order. For this reason‚ I chose an article about a reproduction of the Milgram study that took place in 1963 and established that people will go to extreme lengths to obey authority. The Holocaust was the motivation behind Milgram’s study and we are all knowledgeable of the atrocities ordered by Hitler (Simplepsychology‚ n
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Stanley Milgram’s Aims & Context 10.09.2014 Obedience is a direct social influence where a person complies with orders without questioning a person with perceived authority and does a task voluntarily. In the presence of a person of authority‚ the said person has an option of either complying with orders they are given or to disobey‚ and as consequences may be unknown if they do not follow what they are asked to do‚ fear of punishment may influence the person to then respond by submitting
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was very keen to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Stanley Milgram is a key figure in psychology; he was interested in many different aspects of life‚ however his work on the field of obedience is highly valued and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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Obedience to Authority: its Meaning‚ Uses‚ and Side Effects Obedience to authority is an aspect present in all societies throughout known history. For the entirety of this paper‚ obedience to authority will refer to any act a member of society performs that he or she was told to do by a position of higher authority. This paper will focus on the idea that members of society will follow commands that may go against their moral beliefs on the sole account that the commands come from a place of higher
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