Tuan Nguyen Professor Jill Moreno Ikari ENG 101 11 October 2013 Obedience and Civil Disobedience INTRODUCTION 20XX‚ the world has gone through dramatic changes. World War III largely devastated the whole world. The word “sovereign nation” doesn’t exist since most nations were merge into a large‚ totalitarian world government. It is one the darkest age since the dawn of human history. Technological capabilities has reached such an advanced state that human hardly need to serve themselves‚ everything
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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 state of mind is called an agentic shift. For example in Milgram shock experiment (1963)‚ many participants reported after they
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Milgram (1963) vs. Meeus and Raaijmakers (1985) (12 marks) The aim of both studies was to test obedience. Meeus and Raaijmakers were testing psychological violence‚ where Milgram was testing physical violence. The procedure was similar‚ as in both experiments the participants were paid volunteers and had to give an increasing punishment. The Dutch experiment was conducted in a natural experiment though and and Milgram’s one - in a university. The results of both studies support each other’s
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Existence of Obedience and Liberty Nadia Boulanger the famous French Composer said‚ “A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.” Through this statement we learn that obedience must be coupled with liberty in order to make something or someone great. This will not be an essay supporting disobedience but will in fact show how the greatest obedience is chosen; not forced upon an individual but the joining of obedience and liberty. In the article “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley
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George Zimbardo—psychologist and professor at Stanford University conducted prison experiment to test the effect of situations. In contrast with prediction as lengthy and boring‚ the experiment’s result shocked the world. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has indicated the significant power of roles‚ or situations‚ on human behaviors; thus‚ brings about many influences on society. According to Zimbardo in “ Obedience to Authority‚” he asked the students during the spring term to reverse role and
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illustrates that he only did what he did‚ followed orders‚ because he was told to and he felt like an agent to Adolf Hitler. Milgram also posed the idea of something called moral strain. This is when you obey an order although it goes against your morals‚ you feel that what you are doing is wrong but you have no choice. An example of this is in the study of obedience carried out by Milgram. The participants objected to shocking learners by saying that they wouldn’t do it and consistently standing up to avoid
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INFLUENCES OF CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Influences of Conformity and Obedience Adrienne Alexander PSYCH 555 Dr. Jay Greiner Applications of Social Psychology • Make connections between social psychology and other disciplines. Social psychology is closely related to three other disciplines: personality psychology‚ organizational psychology‚ and sociology (social work is sometimes confused with social psychology
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Baumrind vs. Milgram Milgram conducted an experiment which includes the subject of the experiment is in a laboratory environment and is told to give increasingly severe electric shocks to another person. The subject is getting told to do so by a person in a white lab coat‚ who appears to be a scientist; but is actually an actor. The person in the white lab coat tells the subject to continue to increase the level of shock the other person receives until they reach the level of “Danger Severe Shock
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Behavioural Study of Obedience: Milgram’s Experiment M.J George Brown College #1) Obedience I think the three aspects of the situation faced by the subjects in Milgram’s study were the prestige of the university‚ the proximity of the experimenter‚ and the money paid. These aspects were the most influential in causing the subjects to obey. The influence of the prestige of Yale University was a key point to get the obedience of the subjects. People are prone to obey more
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such example is the controversial Milgrams Obedience study. Likewise‚ deception‚ using different editorial methods in reality television is an important factor to try and retain viewers. However‚ this can have an adverse effect on society. As Albert Bandura (1977) has explained‚ humans learn through observation. Thus‚ the observation of the actions and attitudes deemed appropriate within reality television
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