Obedience in Society Growing up‚ children are taught to obey authority figures such as parents and teachers. As you grow older‚ adults are expected to obey the rules and regulations of the workplace enforced by their employer; and citizens are expected to abide by the laws imposed by the government. Usually the act of obedience becomes habit‚ because people do not want to face the consequences that would be due to happen otherwise. One question however‚ what happens when an individual’s better
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Phenomena: Obedience to Authority Obedience is a social psychology phenomenon where people willingly do something to obey a certain figure of authority that instructed them to do something that conflicted with their moral sense. People obey those authority figures because they believe that they have lesser intellectual‚ power‚ experience or position than that figure. Obedience comes in many different forms‚ for example obedience to law‚ obedience to god‚ obedience to social norms or obedience to spouse
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The acts of torture performed on the inmates at Abu Ghraib were both cruel and inhumane. But what if the reason the guards tortured the inmates was due to the result of obedience from their superiors. The cause of the torture of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib could have stemmed from situational factors instead of the will of a few aggressive soldiers. Authority figures that use persuasive methods can be very influential. There are many circumstantial possibilities as to why the guards treated the
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on what is the correct thing to do in this situation. There are three types of social influence - conformity - compliance - obedience Conformity Conformity involves developing attitudes‚ opinions‚ and behaviors to match the attitudes of a specific group. Most people conform to the standard values‚ also called norms‚ of many groups without stress and often without even knowing
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Milgram‚ S. (1974) Obedience to Authority. Predictions and variations conclusion. Summary of Milgram’s study detailing the average levels of shock ‘teachers’ administered and the percentage of ‘teachers’ administering the maximum voltage with results reported by prediction and type of authority variation. The data shows during the experimental conditions the highest average voltage that ‘teachers’ stopped administering shocks was in the original study (368 Volts) with the highest percentage of
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Bonus Reflection Paper on the Kawakami Paper and Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Study Ella Price In Kerry Kawakami’s paper “Mispredicting Affective and Behavioural Response to Racism” the paradox of remarking upon how strongly overt prejudice is condemned within modern society and the acts of why blatant racism still frequency occurs were scientifically examined (Kawakami‚ K.‚ Dunn‚ E.‚ Karmali‚ F.‚ & Dovidio‚ F‚ D.‚ 2009). The results of this study were truly astonishing‚ yet
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In order to explain the relationship between discipline and obedience from a Montessori perspective‚ it would be useful define and compare the more common explanations of these terms with the interpretations of Maria Montessori. The development of the child within the Montessori setting and in particular the maturational development of discipline‚ obedience and the will shall then be discussed. In so doing‚ a very close and almost symbiotic relationship between all three will become apparent. Discipline
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Summary about The Perils of Obedience Obedience is something everyone has to follow growing up. Whether it is parents‚ grandparents‚ teachers‚ or even a manager‚ society implements a process of obeying people in charge. People often wonder how far someone will go to avoid disobeying authorities about a controversial topic. Throughout the article “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ people become aware of the necessity to obey higher authority no matter what pain they
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continue” (Nevid & Rathus‚ p. 245). Should one resist and not obey the authority figures that made the immoral request? Stanley Milgram a Psychologist at Yale University did research study on this question. Milgram decision to study this question of obedience was rooted in his Jewish heritage and his determination to better understand the atrocities of the holocaust. In (1963) Milgram placed an advertisement
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The Milgram experiment‚ as it is now called‚ was considered a turning point in social psychology and the science of obedience. In a new study from Poland‚ a group of researchers wanted to see if the premise held up. That is‚ 50 years later‚ would people still respond to an authority figure in the same way as they did in Milgram’s original experiment? "Upon learning about Milgram’s experiments‚ a vast majority of people claim that ’I would never behave in such a manner‚’" study co-author Tomasz
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