Milgram conducted a test in 1963 because he was very interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction even if it involved physically hurting another person. Stanley Milgram was interested in how quickly and easily ordinary people could be influenced into harming or mudering inncent people. He got this idea from studying the way the Germans atrociously treated international prisoners in the second world war during the peak of Hitlers racial purification regime to rule the
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Obedience Summary Stanley Milgrams experiments are some of the most recognized behavior experiments in psychology today. Milgrams most known experiment was ‘shocking’ to people and has also been controversial ethically. As Ian Parker stated it would “make his name and destroy his reputation.” Parkers Obedience essay talks much of Milgrams life before the experiment and how the psychology community thought about his ethics. Parker talks of Milgram struggling to place his findings in a scientific
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In this assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which
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Milgram’s infamous 1963 study into the nature of obedience is often portrayed in the media as strong evidence for an innate human predisposition to obedience‚ “resistance is futile” (Parker‚ 2007) when it comes to the human condition to obey – even in a “destructive” (Milgram‚ 1963) sense. As Milgram (1963) himself states‚ obedience as a concept is one of the most fundamental aspects of society‚ and much has frequently been made of drawing parallels with the atrocities carried out by the Third Reich
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The Milgram study was based off Stanley Milgram’s curiosity about the issues of obedience. Milgram wanted to investigate the question is Germans were particularly susceptible to showing obedience to authority figures since that was the excuse for so many Nazi’s during World War 2. The experiment used one subject‚ “the learner” as an actor to see how far the other participant‚ “the teacher”‚ would obey
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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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all societies‚ there exists social influences that are known as conformity and obedience. These are traits that can be encountered in almost all societies. Both obedience and conformity involve social influence and have the ability to encourage an individual to engage in a certain behaviour. This can be done with or without the recipient of the social influence being aware that he or she is under social influence. Obedience can be seen as pressure being exerted from an individual that carries a sense
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Stanley Cycle Company Julia Mackenzie‚ Colin Robinson‚ Jason Monaghan and Justin Corby Managerial Accounting I For Winston Marcellin George Brown College April 11‚ 2012 1. Introduction to Stanley Cycle Stanley Cycle Company is a motorcycle manufacturer that deals with two subassembly lines. Their two lines are JY-63 and RX-67. The two lines are both mechanically complex‚ and require machining‚ assembly and inspection. Stanley receives raw materials to be used in the production
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Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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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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