The author is giving us those references in order to show us how disobedience can be defined as a good thing. Does not mean necessarily a vice. He also states a very thoughtful and creative idea, that the mankind might be destroyed from a people who are simply following an obedient authority. And he gives an example with the nuclear annihilation and the World War II.…
For this discussion, please review Solomon Asch’s (1958) study of conformity. The results of this study, demonstrate how many of the individual participants conformed to the group despite the fact that the group was clearly wrong, and the individuals were clearly right. In addition, watch the video on the ABC New Primetime: Milgram Experiment Update video. Through this experiment we observe how perceptions of authority directly influence obedience. For example, even when the action ordered by the authority figure caused physical harm, the participants were still obedient. What are some explanations for this type of behavior? Can you think of an example of when you disregarded your own desires or values for the sake of obedience or conformity?…
Also, obedience to authority is also seen in the high school social pyramid. When you are subjected…
This means that if one doesn’t obey the authority he will get punished. So moral decisions are made to avoid punishment.…
In May of 1962 Stanley Milgram, a Social Psychologist at Yale University, conducted a study on “Obedience and Human Nature” that was influenced by his curiosity of the WWII German Nazi Holocaust and concentration camps. Milgram asked “How could it be, that ordinary German people could allow the extermination of the Jews” and wanted to know under what circumstances would a person disobey authority?…
4. Influencing Others: Obedience and Conformity – What factors lead us to conform and become obedient?…
Obedience is a direct social influence where a person complies with orders without questioning a person with perceived authority and does a task voluntarily. In the presence of a person of authority, the said person has an option of either complying with orders they are given or to disobey, and as consequences may be unknown if they do not follow what they are asked to do, fear of punishment may influence the person to then respond by submitting to what they have been told to do.…
Obedience results from pressure to comply with authority. Children are taught to obey from an early age by their care givers, in order for them to conform in society. The authoritarian rule continues through their education and working life, and is then passed on to the next generation. This essay will focus on the work of the American psychologist Stanley Milgram. It will also look at other studies into obedience that evolved from Milgram’s experiments from the early 1960s.…
Visible Status - seeing authority (cops in uniforms or teachers having a larger desk in grade school or professors speaking on a stage like set up)…
shows Perils of Obedience of how the authority overcomes morality and believe they are not…
Leveillee of Southeastern College. In his essay The Role of Obedience in Society he states: “Obedience is a part of the foundation of society. Without obedience, naught would exist but chaos and anarchy” (Leveillee). Leveillee believes that without obedience, society would be overtaken with chaos, and any organized type of social or economic structure would be nonexistent. There would be no stability in employment, no way to distinguish socio-economic classes, and no way to measure one’s success. Although Leveillee proves an excellent point that society must have some form of obedience and adaptation towards authority, there are many cases where unjust laws and regulations are put in place, awaiting someone with a strong moral compass to change or reform…
Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram conducted 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.…
Obedience, as well as disobedience, has been ingrained in our culture since the beginning of time, so it is no surprise that so many people obeyed Hitler and killed millions of Jewish people. In the Christian religion disobedience is viewed as bad and obedience as good. In the story of Adam and Eve, they disobeyed God by eating from the tree of knowledge and were exiled from Eden. In the story of Noah, he obeyed God and Noah and his family were rewarded and lived through the great flood. These same stories are found in many cultures and religions throughout history. After hearing these stories your entire life, how can one be expected to disobey an authority without, at least, the subconscious fear of negative consequences? Our natural fear of disobeying authority can turn normal, mentally stable, everyday people into genocidal killers.…
Low self-esteem is linked to feelings of insecurity. Research has tended to show that people with low self-esteem, or low feelings of security, are most likely to be the people that would conform. It is believed that those with low self-esteem can increase their sense of personal security if they belong to a group and adopting its norms because there is ‘’safety in numbers’’…
In Fromm essay” Disobedience as a psychological and moral problem”, he discusses and compares the different kinds of obedience and disobedience, and how they can have a positive or negative impact on the human society. There are many physiological comforts to obedience. For example, when a person obeys the law, or is obedient to their superior it leaves them with a feeling of accomplishment. They feel as though they have succeeded in their said job, therefore they are accepted within society. Some people assume, to obey is to be accepted and to disobey is to be withdrawn from society. Another benefit of obedience is reassurance. I believe that Authorities would rather have people obey out of love, over fear because then it is a true thing.…