Outline & Evaluate one or more Explanations of Why People Obey. There are many reasons as to why people obey which 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
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It did not examine the psyche of the main leader of a genocide (the authoritative figure)‚ but instead analyzed the followers thereof (the loyal submissives who went against their conscience to follow the leader’s orders) (McLeod‚ 2007). This obedience to authority is
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How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In - Jim Collins Stage 3: Denial of Rish and Peril This chapter really just talks about the over-confidence that companies tend to have when they become very successful and think that they are invincible. Collins is very good at bringing in examples of companies‚ what they did wrong and what they should have done and comparing it with other companies who took the road less travelled and did things at a slower pace and therefore stayed/ are staying
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Obedience results from pressure to comply with authority. Children are taught to obey from an early age by their care givers‚ in order for them to conform in society. The authoritarian rule continues through their education and working life‚ and is then passed on to the next generation. This essay will focus on the work of the American psychologist Stanley Milgram. It will also look at other studies into obedience that evolved from Milgram’s experiments from the early 1960s. Stanley Milgram is
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People under the age of twenty one are not psychologically fit to go to war. Eighteen is the youngest age you can be to join the war without a parents’ permission‚ which is still a very young age in this society. The legal drinking age is only twenty one in America. If young adults can not drink legally they should not be allowed to go overseas and experience the terrorizing war scene. In the book NAM the author writes “Next I had to kick one dead body in the side of the head until part of his brain
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PEER PRESSURE: The Gateway Crisis It is said that marijuana is the “gateway drug” because the fact of life is that since life is in a permanent chronological order one thing always leads to another. This then‚ can also be said about peer pressure. Peer pressure may be referred to as the “gateway crisis”‚ amongst teenagers. Theorists have proposed that adolescents who are independent from their parents become dependent on their peers and susceptible to peer pressure (Blos‚ 1979;
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In the speech‚ “Perils of Indifference‚” Elie Wiesel‚ the author of Night‚ conveys his message that indifference entices inhumanity as a lack of acknowledgement to one’s suffering is advantageous to an assailant and provides “no elicit response.” Therefore‚ the individual with a sense of indifference is a determining factor in others’ distress for the reason that without involvement‚ the victim will never be assisted. Sentiments of anger and hatred possess the ability to endorse positive conclusions
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Indifference is “strange and unnatural”‚ Indifference is “dusk and dawn”‚ Indifference is “crime and punishment”‚ Indifference is “cruelty and compassion”‚ Indifference is “good and evil.” Famous poet‚ and Holocaust survivor‚ Elie Wiesel in his speech‚ “The Perils of Indifference”‚ argues or claims that indifference is “A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness‚ dusk and dawn‚ crime and punishment‚ cruelty‚ and compassion‚ good and evil. He developed his claim by defining
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Dalton Patterson Professor St. John English 1020 November 15‚ 2013 How Have Today’s Social Pressures Caused Men To Become Anorexic? Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is commonly associated with young women. Most people would never assume that anorexia would be a problem for men‚ but recently‚ eating disorders in men have become an increasing problem. "As recently as a decade ago‚ clinicians believed that only 5 percent of anorexics were male. Current estimates suggest it ’s closer
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In Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals‚ Democratic Practice‚ Rosalee Clawson and Zoe Oxley interpret public opinion as an individual’s beliefs and preferences in regards to all governmental matters and policies.(424) These individual ideas collectively are viewed as the overall populations opinions summarized and can be reflected by a poll. By collecting these opinions through the polling process‚ lawmakers are likely to take these opinions into consideration when creating and/or regulating a policy
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