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    Obedience in the Holocaust

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    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 Stanley Milgram at Yale University‚ it explored how participants

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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 * CONFORMITY * A change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure. – Meyer * is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. * can also be simply defined as “yielding to group pressures”. * is often used to indicate an agreement to the majority position‚ brought about either by * a desire to ‘fit in’ * or be liked (normative) * or because of a

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Assignment In this assignment I intend to evaluate Stanley Milgrams studies of obedience and in particular the ethical issues broken. I hope to determine whether the knowledge gained justifies his experiments. After the destruction and atrocities committed in World War II many historians argued that there must be some sort of character defect that made the German people more obedient. Mailgram’s study was an attempt to test ‘the Germans are different’ hypothesis. The

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    The Essence of Obedience

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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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    The Perils Of Obedience

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    controversial experiments that had to deal with obedience. Zimbardo conducted an experiment in a mock prison that showed the roles of the guards and prisoners. Milgram conducted an experiment that tested how much pain a teacher would inflict on someone else at the command of an experimenter. The experiments that they conducted have been called wrong and unethical. Although the experiments vary from each other‚ they both changed the way the world looks at obedience and Authority. Zimbardo wrote the Article

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    Blind Obedience

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    Blind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday‚ my son leans over to ask‚ "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children ’s Story" by James Clavell‚ made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled

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    House of Obedience

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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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    Conformity and Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity)‚ as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues). The following essay will be about understanding what is meant by and distinguishing the differences between the terms conformity and obedience. It will show the evaluation of two key psychological studies which seek to explain why people do and do not conform

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    Obedience to Authority: A Brief Summary of Milgram’s Research and Current Research’s Position on Milgram’s Findings Introduction Throughout history people have followed directives given by other people‚ such as ‘do this’‚ ‘follow these rules’‚ ‘listen to me’‚ and ‘do as I say’. In fact‚ governments have rules‚ laws and norms of their society so that people will obey the laws and behave in a civilized manner. How is it then that individual’s will go against and contest their own values and morals

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