This topic is analyzed as it greatly fit within the movie concept. It will explain how it correlates with move The Stanford Prison experiment, another similar examples and comparison with Milgram Experiment.
To start analyzing obedience to authority it is good to give first example of relation between cooks and the chef. The location is in the kitchen where cooks are preparing food and chef gave them an order to put big amount of salt in the dishes. Cooks are aware that that amount of salt will ruin the food and make their customer dissatisfied. Now, the cook is in dilemma whether he should do it or not. If he decides not to put the salt he is confronting the Chef who has authority over him and power to fire him. In the other hand if the cook decides to obey his Chefs order he is confronting his conscious and professionalism. This was a first example that roughly explains the concept of obedience to authority.
Another example is Milgram Experiment which was made by one of the most influential social Psychologists Stanley Miligram in 1961. Just before the trial for Nazi Germany criminal Adolf Eichman. Stanley Milgram created the experiment in order to answer the popular question at that time, and even today, how the Nazis could kill all those people in Holocaust and Auschwitz by obeying someone orders? The …show more content…
In Stanford Experiment for this case the focus will be on guards and their inhuman behavior toward prisoners. Guards had Philip Zimbardi as their authority and the responsible one. In the beginning of the experiment they were respectful towards prisoners but later thing went out of control. They started humiliating the prisoners and act inhuman towards them because they didn’t felt guilty , In fact they had lots of fun doing such things as they didn’t thought it is their fault to act like that but the ones giving them orders. (Haslam and Reicher,
To start analyzing obedience to authority it is good to give first example of relation between cooks and the chef. The location is in the kitchen where cooks are preparing food and chef gave them an order to put big amount of salt in the dishes. Cooks are aware that that amount of salt will ruin the food and make their customer dissatisfied. Now, the cook is in dilemma whether he should do it or not. If he decides not to put the salt he is confronting the Chef who has authority over him and power to fire him. In the other hand if the cook decides to obey his Chefs order he is confronting his conscious and professionalism. This was a first example that roughly explains the concept of obedience to authority.
Another example is Milgram Experiment which was made by one of the most influential social Psychologists Stanley Miligram in 1961. Just before the trial for Nazi Germany criminal Adolf Eichman. Stanley Milgram created the experiment in order to answer the popular question at that time, and even today, how the Nazis could kill all those people in Holocaust and Auschwitz by obeying someone orders? The …show more content…
In Stanford Experiment for this case the focus will be on guards and their inhuman behavior toward prisoners. Guards had Philip Zimbardi as their authority and the responsible one. In the beginning of the experiment they were respectful towards prisoners but later thing went out of control. They started humiliating the prisoners and act inhuman towards them because they didn’t felt guilty , In fact they had lots of fun doing such things as they didn’t thought it is their fault to act like that but the ones giving them orders. (Haslam and Reicher,