Obedience

Yuga Miyamoto Mrs.Abbott Honors English 10A (1) 7 October 2015 Governmental Obedience Rollo May portrays conformity when he states “... the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice but conformity”. A society displays conformity when it follows a specific set of rules making all people identical in what they do. Using conformity to rule, the government within the society of the text, addresses conformity which monitors everything; from the way the people socialize and how the people…

make sure that the participants are not harmed in any way and that the conducted research is ethically valid. I have chosen to discuss the ethical considerations related to research studies at the sociocultural level of analysis about Milgram's obedience study (1963) and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment (1973). They are both famous for their lack of ethical considerations, and I am going to discuss how and why they are lacking the ethical considerations. Let's start discussing the…

“James, go chop that wood outside.” “James, don’t put your elbows on the table.” “James, put that phone of yours away.” Obedience has been a common theme in many households spanning hundreds of generations. This topic is one of the main ideas in the movie, A Few Good Men. In the movie, two Marines stationed at Guantanamo Marine Base in Cuba, are accused of killing a fellow Marine William Santiago. Daniel Kaffee, Jo Galloway, and Sam Weinberg all try to convince the courts that these men did not…

Milgram's obedience experiment or the Milgram experiment is a series of famous social psychological experiments. The aim of the experiments was to highlight and measure the subjects' aptitude to obey an authority instructing the subject to perform actions that they would normally not want to perform for conscience reasons. At the end of World War II, many in the West were surprised by how seemingly healthy and socially well-behaved people could commit to murder, torture and other abuse of…

Obedience is when an authority figure with enough perceived power tells people to change their behavior about something and the people then obey. An example of obedience is: the federal government requiring U.S. automakers to increase the average fuel economy of all their cars from 27.5 miles per gallon-37.8 miles per gallon by 2016. The federal government said “change” so the automakers then obeyed. Normative social influence is when an individual changes his or her behavior just to match…

Ethics are a fundamental concern of sociologists when they are conducting research. 7.) Was it ethical to do these experiments? If yes, which ones and why? If not, why not? I do not think that it was ethical to do any of these experiments because it basically exploited these people and their well-being. Even though these people signed up to do this experiment, the treatment of them was extremely unethical and could have even been damaging. The only way this could have been ethical in my mind was…

the participants and the freedom that they should have. There are so many controversies surrounding ethics and research since some of the ethical rules are not followed or some seem to be exaggerated so not applicable. Conformity and Obedience to Authority Obedience is the compliance with command given by the authority. Milgram research on authority creates a clear picture on how obey authority based on different factors. His research…

Chapter 12 talked about “Conformity and Obedience: Yielding to Others.” The book defines conformity when people yield to real or imagined social patterns. After hearing this I couldn’t help but be reminded of the series my church had just completed. The main verse discussed these past 8 weeks is Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” These past 8 weeks I have been looking at myself and trying to find areas in my life where I…

Boleyn and his wife Katherine one man stood in the way, the Pope. Henry could not obtain a divorce from Katherine considering there was no valid reason for the divorce. So he plotted and with the influence of Anne and a book called “The Obedience of a Christian Man,” he inherited the idea that the king should be in charge of everything. When he is “in charge” of everything he vacations in France with his mistress, has a secret marriage, and gets her pregnant. Yet, he is still married to his…

This concept could be used to explain Elliot’s actions. In “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley Milgram writes “The rebellious actions of others severely undermines authority. In one variation, three teachers (two actors and a real subject) administered a test and shocks. When the two actors disobeyed the experimenter, and refused…