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    Obedience to Authority

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    Obedience to Authority No human social organization can function without some degree of obedience to authority‚ as the alternative would be anarchy leading to total chaos. Hence we find some sort of a hierarchy in both the most underdeveloped and the most civilized societies where certain individuals exercise authority over others. Almost everyone will agree that some degree of authority in certain individuals or groups (and their obedience by other groups) is desirable for the proper

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    Conformity And Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Starting from a very young age‚ it is considered the norm to obey and to conform. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate a study for conformity and obedience. Conformity can be defined as a change in one self‚ when one gives in to group pressure‚ in order to fit in to society. Obedience on the other hand is when you are told what to do. The difference between the two are‚ when we conform it is usually down to peer pressure. Where as in obedience you are taking orders from

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    Understanding Obedience

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    Obedience Obedience is the process which leads a person – or an animal –‚ after listening to an order or a demand from an authoritative figure‚ to obey regardless of the consequences or moral implications derived from following that order or demand. The way in which this demand is followed can very; it can be in an active manner‚ in this case the obedient individual will do what they are told to; or in a passive one‚ where the individual will refrain from doing something‚ for the only reason that

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    The study of Obedience

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    conducted the Behavioral study of obedience experiment. Milgram conducted this experiment to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure instructing them to perform acts that conflicted with their moral view of right and wrong. The participants in the Milgram experiment were 40 men recruited using newspaper ads. The researchers hoped that the level of shock that the participants were willing to deliver would be used as the measure of obedience. Milgram developed an intimidating

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    The Evils of Obedience

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    The Evils of Obedience If one was to be asked to follow through with an order to inflict pain on another human being‚ would they obey this order? Many would answer “Never!” Yet‚ humans have been following orders such as these since the beginning of time‚ for example‚ the Holocaust or the murdering of innocent civilians during the Vietnam War. Some may think these people are psychopaths‚ but could they also be ordinary people followings the orders of a higher power or simply being influenced by

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    Milgram's Obedience

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    Diana Baumrind‚ a credited psychologist wrote‚ "Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience‚" while working at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California. In her review‚ Baumrind discusses phenomena which occurred in Milgram’s Obedience Experiment. She briefly presents a case against Milgram by questioning the ethicality of Milgram’s experiment. In addition‚ Baumrind provides excerpts of Milgram’s own observations from which she deducts that Milgram seems unemotionally

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    CioConformity obedience and authority Conformity basically means compliance with common practices Compliance means doing what other people in our social standing do in our daily lives. Most people‚ in most social groups‚ conform in everyday things like speech‚ dress codes‚ eating habits etc. This kind of conformity is known as ‘’Social control’’- the numerous pressure as individuals grow turns them from babies into members of our society. The main agencies of social control are the family‚ the

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    Obedience in the Holocaust

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    occurred‚ seemingly ordinary people were capable of terrible deeds. Whether they acted under recklessness‚ fear‚ hate‚ ignorance‚ or were simply ‘following orders’ is what one must ask about every participant of the Holocaust‚ and through experiments like Milgram’s‚ we can understand the psychology of their obedience well enough to ensure that such atrocities never happen again. One extremely famous exploration into how someone could acquiesce to such evil is the Milgram Experiment. Performed by

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    Obedience with Authority

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    Asch‚ Solomon. “Opinions and Social Pressure.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Columbus‚ OH: Pearson‚ 2013. Print. 655-659. According to the article “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ Solomon Asch writes about how the affects of group pressure can alter a person’s decision. During the investigation‚ Asch describes how everyone in the group agrees with the answer that they have chosen except for one in which the author calls him the “dissenter (Asch 656)”. Solomon Asch stated that the

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Why do we conform? Two basic sources of influence: normative social influence‚ the need to be liked‚ accepted by others and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment. They were each asked to match a standard length line with three

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