Stanley Milgram Experiment Analysis

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The perfect picture, one that painted for the universal group of college students across the world. The expectations for us is to finished high school, next enter a university and be complete within no later then five years with our BA or BS, assuming we will have a perfect career after this and live the happily ever after. This is not even remotely close to the case. Many graduated students do not get this “perfect pictures” society is expecting of them. Rather, many of college student, find our way by obeying them. While, many others don’t even follow this image created by society for them. In the Milgram Experiment that was conducted in 1963 at Yale University, where psychologist Stanley Milgram set up a test know as the Experiment 5, for …show more content…
Obedience has always been the fundamental structure of human beings since the beginning of time. We can witness this happening on a daily basis, from siblings telling one another to do what they are told, or a professors standard that expected of student that’s mandatory rather then failing the course. Humans being similar, does what they are told not because they want to, rather, it’s easier to do it than go against it. Many of us learn from past experience what the consequences we face if we disobey. “Obedience is the basic element in the structure of social life as one can point too.” (TB, …show more content…
Psychologist refer this Research as the “Paradox of Power” which have show that people with “rude, and inappropriate behavior, such as the shouting of profanities, come from the offices of those with the most authority.” (TB 662) With the given power that is given to them they abuse it. For example, an older sibling thinks it’s okay for them to tell their younger sibling what to do, how to do it. In many case, it was just a getting something for them or bossing them around because they are simply “older.” Given that fact that they are the other siblings, they think its okay for them to say or do things such as boss their younger sibling around. In many case, they blame their younger sibling for something they

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