Obedience

On every birth certificate in the United States it is quite clearly documented where the infant was born and when. Even if the child only lives for moments or not at all, the place of origin is still met with mechanical efficiency and then held for an undetermined amount of time within the bowels of the government. For those born who survive the transition, that birthplace is, for some, never left again. After a lifetime within the borders of a society where existences are conditioned around the…

Throughout the movie, A Few Good Men, there is controversy about obedience to authority when two marines follow an order believed to be unethical. Privates Dawson and Downey, carry out a “code red”, or hazing, of another member of the unit, and were put on trial for the unintentional murder of Private Santiago. Stanley Milgram, Yale psychologist and author of “The Perils of Obedience” claims, “Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living” (Milgram 78). Along with Milgram,…

Thomas Chandler Haliburton once said: “Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience”. This quote is quite true. There is much debate about what causes obedience- or disobedience in this matter - to authority. Some people argue that a person’s personality or character traits are the reason. They believe that based on a person’s history could dictate how they respond to a situation. Others suggest that people have a problem with people who blindly follow authority.…

Obedience is the concept of changing one’s behaviour in order to suit a demand from an authority figure (Kenrick, Neuberg, & Cialdini, 2010) and it is considered to be a strong social influence. Because of this it has been the interest of psychologists decades in the past and it continues to be in the present. Many recent experiments have been carried out (Slater, Antley, Davison, Swapp, Guger, Barker et al., 2006; Dambrun & Vatine, 2010; Burger, 2009; Zeigler-Hill, Southard, Archer & Donohoe,…

The aim was to understand the extent of compliance towards obedience, particularly relating the notion of inflicting harm on another being under the instructions of an authority figure. An ecological application of the Nazis behaviour during WWII. Stanley Milgram an American social psychologist devised an experiment which operationalized obedience. The original intention to test the German population and correlate the results to the holocaust was abandoned due to fundamental ethical issues.…

To be obedient to authority means to “take directive orders from an authority figure, obedience is practiced to avoid punishment or other unpleasant outcomes due to ignorance of the order”. Usually obedience is done out of fear or respect. Obedience to authority was shown when Luke was made to dig the hole and fill it back up again. When he hadn’t done it fast enough the captain would hit him continuously. Luke begged…

Milgrams classic obedience study, the investigation to the obedience to authority. Milgram’s experiment of obedience was done in 1961 soon after World War 2 had ended this was when the trials for war crimes against the Nazi’s were being done at the time. Milgram put a question on the experiment that what if the Germans during WWII were simply obeying to authority that was given when carrying out the Holocaust or were they all acting on their own?. The experiment was on Obedience to…

Dilemmas of obedience is a widespread topic that has been studied by Solomon Asch and Stanly Milgram. Asch studied the probability of a person to conform to a group and Milgram investigated one’s ability to resist authority. Although there’s variations in the way each experiment was conducted, there’s many similarities that relate to the treatment of each subject. Results of these studies support the reasoning behind the different ways that people act. Events in the past can also correlate with…

research experiment by Milgram valid. There is evidence of researcher bias, thus; compromising the internal validity of the results. In a real-world context, my personal belief is that the authority figure is not the main aspect of the concept of obedience, instead the roles we take on as individuals in our environment shape our outlook on our behavior. The authority figure will demand and the subordinate will inevitably obey (Milgram,1963). This can be connected to the Stanford Prison…

Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, who was known for his obedience experiment performed in the 1960s at Yale University. Milgram’s idea on purposing his experiment first came from the hideous acts of WWII. Milgram examined how individuals had the tendency to obey higher authority, such as Hitler, and still contain harmful acts on others, just because they were ordered to do so. According to Milgram (1963) he also believed that in some situations, that human propensity to “obey…