Throughout civilization‚ humans have used conformity and obedience to be accepted in society. They do this in order to be praised by superiors for following orders. This can happen with anything in their lives‚ from working‚ religion‚ and even at school. However‚ there is a darker side. Many of the greatest atrocities of human civilization have occurred because of the desire to be obedient and conform. Even if it means that they must violate their own values‚ they will do so in order to maintain
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Alisha Thomas C. Sturm English 102 February 20‚2009 The Essence of obedience The fidelity of ones faith becomes the premise to justify the changing of ones conscience. In many cases people act rationally in pursuit of the “benefits” they pursue from being part of a religious group. There is a term coined for this type of thought process‚ “parochial altruism”-they combine a parochial act (the attacker killing members from other groups) with altruism (the attacker sacrificing themselves
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Blind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday‚ my son leans over to ask‚ "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children ’s Story" by James Clavell‚ made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled
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The Bait-al-taa or House of Obedience is a provision in Islam law which gives husbands the right to demand obedience from their wives. If a woman leaves her husband’s home without his permission he has the right to force her to come back. The husband can claim “nushaz” or disobedience and order her to come back with a qadi (judgement.) Once the woman returns she stays either at her husband’s home or in another living area (House of Obedience) which provides the woman with essential necessities. Divorce
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companies and individuals are the minority. Every individual can stomp his feet and stand on his soap box and say how he would’ve acted differently if he was placed in the aforementioned 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‚
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Yale University‚ known as Stanley Milgram‚ provided one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. He conducted an experimentation concentrating on the dispute amongst a response to a direct order from a superior and the internal logic of what is right or wrong in one’s behaviors or motives‚ compelling towards right action. The principal objective was to see how far a human would go when an authority ordered them to kill an innocent individual. Milgram wanted to be precise if the Germans
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What is The Milgram Experiment? It is one of the most famous social science studies of obedience in psychology ever conducted. This experiment was carried out by Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ in 1963. He conducted this experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience in which a large proportion of subjects complied with an experimenter’s instructions to deliver painful and potentially lethal shocks to a fellow participant. Milgram’s
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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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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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In the 1960s‚ Milgram‚ then a professor at Yale‚ recruited ordinary people through a newspaper ad offering them money to help in a project purporting to improve human memory. In Milgrams experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. Milgram was interested in how people obey under authoritative circumstances‚ using "fake" settings to test obedience. Under any given circumstance people tend to obey authority differently
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