Problem is Civil Obedience (Howard Zinn) The world has been through drastic changes overtime. In Zinn’s article‚ he discusses how people obey the law. Civil disobedience is the active‚ professed refusal to obey certain laws‚ demands‚ or commands of a government‚ or of an occupying international power‚ as a form of peaceful protest. He states that the problem is not civil disobedience‚ but it is civil obedience.1 Zinn includes how not only is this happening today‚ but civil obedience has been an uprising
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Milgram (1963) vs. Meeus and Raaijmakers (1985) (12 marks) The aim of both studies was to test obedience. Meeus and Raaijmakers were testing psychological violence‚ where Milgram was testing physical violence. The procedure was similar‚ as in both experiments the participants were paid volunteers and had to give an increasing punishment. The Dutch experiment was conducted in a natural experiment though and and Milgram’s one - in a university. The results of both studies support each other’s
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Montessori philosophy interprets “discipline” (Montessori‚1988) and “obedience” (Montessori‚ 1988) in a different way than any other philosophy does. This essay intends to discuss and define those two important factors in detail and explains the difference between them.” Discipline” and “obedience” can only be discussed in combination with freedom in a prepared environment. Freedom not only allows the child to progress in his/her own pace‚ it also fosters the child’s emerging inner discipline. However
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Authority would not be able to exist without obedience. There is a scarcely discernible difference between taking after indiscriminately and unreasonable refusal to comply with those in a significant position of specialist. Submission to expert is a genuine and effective constrain that ought to be comprehended and regarded so as to deal with every circumstance in the most ideal way. Stanley Milgram’s experiment is one of the most important experiments ever administrated. The goal of the Milgram’s
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boring‚ the experiment’s result shocked the world. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has indicated the significant power of roles‚ or situations‚ on human behaviors; thus‚ brings about many influences on society. According to Zimbardo in “ Obedience to Authority‚” he asked the students during the spring term to reverse role and lecture him a topic that would interest him. One group of students‚ led by David Jeffe‚ decided to do a lecture on the psychology of imprisonment‚ and they spent the
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Summary In 1965‚ Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment which mainly focused on the severity of the electric shock that a person would be willing to administer to another person based on the directions that were given by an authority figure (Milgram‚ 1965). The researchers who were apart of this study expected anyone who participated would go beyond 150 volts shock point. The “victim” stated they no longer wanted to participate in the experiment. In 1965‚ Milgram reported that this study had
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Obedience: Does it have its limits? When individuals abandon their own freedom for the benefit of the larger group‚ they are no longer individuals but products of conformity. Obedience to authority can become dangerous when morals and independent thought are stifled to the point that harm is inflicted upon another person. "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram reports on his controversial experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders‚ even if carrying out those orders
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Obedience is when someone does what a person or rule tells him or her to do. People tend to follow orders of an authority‚ and this can sometimes result in a negative effect. An example would include all those people who were obedient to Hitler‚ and killed innocent people in the Holocaust. For instance‚ Stanley Milgram‚ in his article‚ Perils of Obedience‚ writes about his experiment‚ of how people obey an authority‚ neglecting their conscience‚ and how this can be a threat to real life experiences
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to stand against the majority opinion. Several famous studies have looked at different aspects of conformity and how subjects respond to certain situations. The results of the Milgram‚ Asch‚ and Zimbardo studies can teach us to avoid abuses of power in the future. The first study discussed was conducted by Stanley Milgram‚ and it looked at how far a participant would go in hurting another human when told to do so by the researcher in charge. Sometimes subjects gave what was supposed to be a potentially
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In May‚ 1962 an experiment was done at Yale University. The experiment was called Milgram’s Obedience to Authority. The participants of the experiment was forty males. The male’s ages were between twenty and fifty years old. Along‚ with the age differences they all had different occupations. Once the experiment begins the learner is tied down to a chair. The teacher is then put in a room opposite of the learner and is not able to see the learner. The purpose of the learner is to remember the line
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