Obedience Some of the darkest times in history have resulted from passive obedience‚ not from large acts of violence. Howard Zinn‚ a social activist‚ once stated “Historically‚ the most terrible things – war‚ genocide‚ and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience‚ but from obedience.” In many instances‚ leaders or dictators have taken over a specific group of people and caused them to obey their commands by frightening them with authority. Obedience appears as the main cause of war‚ genocide
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Obedience Ashley M. Martinez PSY/285 Stacie Flynn One of the most prominent studies of obedience in the study of psychology was performed by Stanley Milgram. The intent of this study was to research how far individuals would go in obeying a command while it involved hurting someone. Milgram’s curiosity to see how normal individuals could be influenced by enormity seems to be an influence for this study. My initial reaction to Milgram’s study video
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Obedience In this essay I am going to write on how obedience can affect individuals on how they would normally behave and integrate in society. The meaning of Obedience is a form of social influence where an individual acts in response to a direct order from another individual‚ who is usually an authority figure. It is assumed that without such an order the person would not have acted in this way. (McLeod‚ 2007) Migram (1963) conducted a study on how obedient a person would be to an authority
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given the maximum 450-volt shock three times in succession. The experiment was inspired by the Holocaust - were the Germans in league with the Nazis‚ or where they simply following orders as they exterminated the Nazi’s victims? Milgram wanted to study whether people would obey an authority figure‚ or would their own morals make them stop the experiment? The result - 65% of people administered the maximum 450-volt shock. Only one refused to go above 300 volts. From source below (Milgram’s
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Obedience to destructive authority is a recurrent social issue in human history. And more than often‚ human beings do not need to hear the imperative sentence “ Thou Shalt Obey ” in order to comply with a destructive rule‚ a questionable decision‚ or with an odd order. All over the world‚ human beings seem to strive toward obedience to destructive authority. I could not help but connect this reasoning with real-life events such as the Holocaust‚ suicide bombings‚ and local events such as the case
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The Nymph’s Reply The Shepherd had a sincere proposal‚ offering all the riches in his grasp to give to his love. But the Nymph rejects it for a simple reason‚ the only reason necessary; the Shepherd only promises materialist possessions and never mentions a serious relationship‚ let alone actual love. If an honest man is willing to give everything he has to a woman‚ is this action considered love or is it lust? If a woman falls for this bribery is she considered materialistic and naive? By the
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Obedience Stanly Milgram and George Orwell present individuals who ignore their own moral codes when they are confronted by authority figures. In Milgram’s experiment people continued to shock other test subjects continuously despite their reservations against it. Even when the participants in Milgram’s experiments did not want to continue with the experiment‚ the authority figure in the experiment was able to convince them to continue. Likewise‚ in Orwell’s autobiography “Shooting an Elephant”
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Every area of life has some kind of rules‚ sometimes these rules are easy to abide by and other times they may not be. Even though we may not always agree with the rules that are laid down for us‚ many times we follow them because of our obedience towards authority figures. We tend to follow the rules of our authority because they generally know what is best for us and know what the right thing to do is. However‚ there may be times in which our authority figure is telling us to do something that
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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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