Stanley Milgram's Experiments On Obedience Essay

bedience has been around for many years throughout the world. There are several ways to look at obedience, but when does it go too far? There are many stories, for adults and children, about obedience. All of the stories have different themes to them ranging from obeying your parents, obeying God, and being good children. In the Baumrind article, “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience,” she criticizes Milgram for harming his subjects and violating their rights. She discusses how the experiment tarnished the subject’s self image and the ability to trust authority later on in life. In the Parker article, “Obedience,” Parker believed that Milgram’s experiment was the most celebrated experiment in the history of social psychology …show more content…
Baumrind only talks about Milgram’s experiment and the aftereffects because she was against it. She states, “It is important that as research psychologists we protect our ethical sensibilities rather than adapt our personal standards to include as appropriate the kind of indignities to which Milgram’s subjects were exposed” (94). Baumrind was focused on bashing Milgram for his experiment without mentioning what happens after his experiment and how his life goes. Parker had chosen to mention how Milgram’s life went after he had finished his experiment. Parker states, “So in 1967 Stanley Milgram left Harvard to become head of the social psychology programme in the psychology department in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)” (99). Parker had not made Milgram out to be a monster yet because Milgram had wanted to do better and change. Milgram had decided to do other experiments, but they were all unsuccessful because there was no conclusive ending to them (105). Milgram was attacked for his experiment, but he had made a name for himself, good and