Personality traits can be considered as a reasonably constant attribute that triggers individuals to behave in certain manners. Most personality traits naturally vary from occasion to occasion, but would maintain a core consistency which defines the individual’s “true nature”. (Matthews, Deary & Whiteman, 2003) Social influences on the other hand, is the action that was brought about through obeying authority figures such as our parents, police, teachers and politicians and by conforming to social norms. The simplest form of social influence in our lives comes from the roles we try to fulfil every day. This conformity of roles, influenced by various social agents can be performed regardless of self-perception or personal code of conducts.
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The experiment was exercised to measure the compliance of participants in obeying an authority figure who instructed them to execute acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram drew idea for the project of his experiment from the Nazis, who shows exemplary of the Milgram effect. (Boundless, 2016)
Stanley Milgram’s experiment on Obedience illustrates people's reluctance to confront those who abuse their power because due to the pressure of the authority. It was also observed that the subjects obey because they were allowed to allocate their responsibility, guilt and the consequences of their actions even though they are violating their own values. By obeying, the subjects are conforming to the social pressures and avoid the negative consequences of defying. (SSI, …show more content…
Gang fights are a tactic of protesting by a group of members collectively with orders from a figure of authority. These adolescents partake in obedience through engaging themselves around social hierarchy, their gang leaders. These gang members partake in fights even if they oppose to the idea and acts. They obey their leaders and provide themselves reasons to avoid accountability by using their leaders’ orders as sufficient justification for their
The experiment was exercised to measure the compliance of participants in obeying an authority figure who instructed them to execute acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram drew idea for the project of his experiment from the Nazis, who shows exemplary of the Milgram effect. (Boundless, 2016)
Stanley Milgram’s experiment on Obedience illustrates people's reluctance to confront those who abuse their power because due to the pressure of the authority. It was also observed that the subjects obey because they were allowed to allocate their responsibility, guilt and the consequences of their actions even though they are violating their own values. By obeying, the subjects are conforming to the social pressures and avoid the negative consequences of defying. (SSI, …show more content…
Gang fights are a tactic of protesting by a group of members collectively with orders from a figure of authority. These adolescents partake in obedience through engaging themselves around social hierarchy, their gang leaders. These gang members partake in fights even if they oppose to the idea and acts. They obey their leaders and provide themselves reasons to avoid accountability by using their leaders’ orders as sufficient justification for their