I‚ have always respected authority‚ I believe it is always imperative to respect authority‚ as shortly after I entered the Marine Corps I heard a story about a NCO that told a LCPL to get over here now and he did and right after he moved the berm where he had been standing was shot right where his head would have been. I remember that story from when my gunny told it to me when I first got to the fleet it’s something I don’t think I will ever forget it is one of the things that reminds me every day
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MY LAI MASSACRE AS A RESULT OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY The Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war‚" although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Milgram ’s "Obedience to Authority" and the My Lai Massacre. According to Kelman & Hamilton‚ "Unquestioning obedience has been the cause of such disasters as the My Lai massacre and the Holocaust
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power and control of authority around you? Thinking about your parents‚ elder siblings‚ teachers‚ the city mayor and even the president‚ all of those are the authority figures around you in the daily life. Because authority is not always correct and can be easily abused‚ people need to have their own judgment and combat the injustice when it happens. Authority is the person with higher ability. Thus‚ he/she has the power and responsibility to enforce laws‚ exact obedience and lead the path of
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of people are easily manipulated due to the overwhelming power of peer pressure and environment. So when does one lose their identity in a group and become a vessel that follows every order. How does one decide that the obedience in hand is justify and when to go against obedience for the sake of a better or safer outcome? The group mind is a powerful thing. Is it even able to change people morale completely opposite from what they believe in? We as humankind have always been a pack
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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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One inherent risk factor that would impact my audit procedures of Enron were the large number of highly complex accounting entries. For example energy traders were required to book all the projected profits from a supply contract in the quarter in which the deal is made. Such accounting procedures are inherently risky as they make assumptions about price forecasts which can drastically affect earnings. Another inherent risk factor is the frequency of related party transactions. The special purpose
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Authority Authority means the legitimate or acceptable use of power. “If an order given by a leader to a member of his group is accepted by the member and controls his activity in the group‚ then the order is said to carry authority” C.I Barnard Authority means the ability to control the behavior of others. Authority is a symbolic reality and it is the ability to influence person’s actions in a desired direction without resorting to force. The most important earthly influence in a person ’s life
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out of all of them obedience stood out to me the most. Obedience is the most important social influences to me because it plays a big part of my everyday life. For example‚ when it comes to stopping at a stop sign‚ or when it comes to the rules of my job. I obey stopping at the stop sign and not speeding through it‚ and I also obey the rules of my job. So‚ when I hear the word obedience I start to think about when people obey the rules of their environment or a higher authority. As people‚ I feel
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English 1310-04 28 October 2011 Obedience as an act can be traced back to the very beginnings of human history. The common belief has always been to obey authority at all cost. This act has never been questioned because authority corresponds to the common belief that respecting authority and obeying them will lead you to success in all aspects of life. Obedience is not defined to specific situations and its context can be portrayed in various ways. For example‚ Erich Fromm writes in his essay‚
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November 30‚ 2013 Submission to Authority Marines are one of the most disciplined armed forces in our world today. They are taught to receive orders and to follow them without question. But when should submission to authority stop? Should orders be disregarded when they conflict with a person’s own morals and consciousness? Maybe they should‚ but in the Milgram experiment‚ it was found that it is actually very easy for a person to accept and follow orders while leaving out their own judgment. This
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