CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Barbara Fellows Grand Canyon University January 9‚ 2013 Conformity and Obedience Comprehending the essence of obedience and disobedience has been an interest for many researchers‚ psychologists and scientists. Multiple observations have been administered to assist in understanding such issues and the impact employed by outside factors on individuals within the decision making channels. Neglecting obedience can be as hazardous as neglecting revolution in any society;
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Obedience is the act of practicing obeying; dutiful or submissive compliance. Humans have an instinct to obey because of the role authority plays. Milgram’s research proves my point in his case study that involved shocks of voltage. From birth‚ we learn that everything has a consequence or punishment after an action. Children learn simple philosophies in their youngest age such as obeying their parent’s requests. Something as simple as eating vegetables has a consequence. A reward gives the child
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Obedience and Authority Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote an article‚ "The Perils of Obedience‚" which documented his unique experiment about obedience and authority. The purpose was to observe to what extent an ordinary citizen would compromise his or her conscience when ordered to inflict increasing pain to another human. The experiment consisted of three people: a teacher and learner chosen at random‚ and a scientist. Once all three were acquainted‚ the scientist explained that the goal
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English 1A 20 June 2012 Sphere of Authority Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ stunned the world when he stated that “perhaps the most fundamental lesson of our study is that ordinary people doing their jobs‚ and without particular hostility on their part‚ can become agents in a terrible destructive process.” Milgram’s stunning conclusions‚ which were derived from his experiments‚ proved that obedience is one of the basic elements in the structure of social life. The proximately of the victim
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critique similarities and differences are given between two articles as well as the readers own opinion of the authors’ work. In Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience”‚ certain experiments were conducted on separate types of individuals. Milgram forces his subjects to administer shocks to a non-existent person on the other side of a wall. This experiment questions the obedience of individuals when put in a sadistic environment. On the other hand in Solomon E. Asch’s “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚
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individuals’ shoes‚ but that cannot be determined. Conversely‚ the Milgram experiment‚ however controversial‚ proves that a vast majority of people‚ in the right circumstances‚ will physically harm another person based on the orders of a superior. It is hard to refute scientific evidence and statistics. To further this‚ outside observers constantly iterate that regardless of how morally superior one feels outside of the experiment‚ you‚ too would succumb under the pressure. To that I’d say: I probably
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The article‚ Behavioral Study of Obedience written by Dr. Stanley Milgram of Yale University was published in 1963 by the American Psychological Association (Milgram‚ 1963). In this article we explore one of the most widely studied articles of obedience in psychology. Dr. Milgram conducted an experiment that focused on the connection between the conscience and obedience to authority or commands. The first of many experiments took place in July 1961 after the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann
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What makes ethical behaviors sometimes immoral? Obedience is one of the really good morals that everyone should have‚ one of the things that people are looking for in people around them and that parents wants their children to have. This valuable moral as much as it is really valued and wanted‚ sometimes is not the best thing to do; sometimes disobeying or saying “NO” is much better‚ but this does not mean that it lost its value and become unethical; rather it means that it is like any other thing
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