have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in state of mind is called an agentic shift. For example in Milgram shock experiment (1963)‚ many participants reported
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INFLUENCES OF CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Influences of Conformity and Obedience Adrienne Alexander PSYCH 555 Dr. Jay Greiner Applications of Social Psychology • Make connections between social psychology and other disciplines. Social psychology is closely related to three other disciplines: personality psychology‚ organizational psychology‚ and sociology (social work is sometimes confused with social psychology
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In "The Perils of Obedience‚" Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obeying immoral commands given by authority and refusing authority. The experiment was to see how much pain a normal person would inflict on another person because he/she were being ordered to do so by a scientist. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would
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Topic: Differentiate between power and authority and how they linked with leadership To answer this question of the difference between Power and Authority‚ we must first understand what both Power and Authority actually mean. According to the dictionary (www.dictionary.com) Power comes from the Latin ‘potere’ which means ‘to be able.’ Just from this little description we can tell that to have power would mean that you are able to do things or control people and resources. The dictionary then
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English 1310-04 28 October 2011 Obedience as an act can be traced back to the very beginnings of human history. The common belief has always been to obey authority at all cost. This act has never been questioned because authority corresponds to the common belief that respecting authority and obeying them will lead you to success in all aspects of life. Obedience is not defined to specific situations and its context can be portrayed in various ways. For example‚ Erich Fromm writes in his essay‚
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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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state which says you are subconsciously acting as an agent to some authority figure and that you do what they tell you because you feel as if you are an agent of that person. An example of this would be during the trial of Nazi’s Adolf Eichmann said‚ “I was just following orders to kill Jews”. This clearly illustrates that he only did what he did‚ followed orders‚ because he was told to and he felt like an agent to Adolf Hitler. Milgram also posed the idea of something called moral strain. This is when
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In the Milgram experiment‚ a man picks random people to participate in an experiment. They believe that they are helping discover the roles of punishment on behavior. Although‚ this is not true. The participants themselves are the ones being analyzed. The experiment is to discover how far someone would obey an instruction of harming another person‚ despite personal conflict. The participant and an actor are places in a room and “get to choose” their roles of either teacher or learner‚ although the
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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES STUDENT NUMBER: DLMNOL011 TUTOR: Jabulile Mpanza TUTORIAL NUMBER: 09 ASSIGNMENT:2 Plagiarism Declaration 1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own. 2. I have used the Harvard convention for citation and referencing. Each contribution to‚ and quotation in‚ this essay/report/project/…essay …from the work(s) of other people has been attributed‚ and has been cited and referenced
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The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram‚ was an experiment done on people to study the idea of obedience. However‚ a huge part in the research was the participant’s in the study had thought that the point of the experiment was how the learner’s responded to the given requests‚ not themselves. The experimenter has two participant’s given two pieces of paper to choose one from‚ both of the pieces of paper have ‘teacher’ written on them. The learner is actually a part of the research team to help
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