Blindly Obeying Authority
analytical Essay
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Introduction
Individuals often yield to conformity when they are forced to discard their individual freedom in order to benefit the larger group. Despite the fact that it is important to obey the authority, obeying the authority can sometimes be hazardous especially when morals and autonomous thought are suppressed to an extent that the other person is harmed. Obedience usually involves doing what a rule or a person tells you to but negative consequences can result from displaying obedience to authority for example; the people who obeyed the orders of Adolph Hitler ended up killing innocent people during the Holocaust. In the same way, Stanley Milgram noted in his article ‘Perils of Obedience’ of how individuals obeyed authority and neglected their conscience reflecting how this can be destructive in experiences of real life. On the contrary, Diana Baumrind pointed out in her article ‘Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience’ that the experiments were not valid hence useless.
Summary of the Experiment
In Stanley Milgram’s ‘The Perils of Obedience’, Milgram conducted experiments with the objective of knowing “how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist" (Milgram 317). In the experiments, two participants would go into a warehouse where the experiments were being conducted and inside the warehouse, the subjects would be marked as either a teacher or a learner. A learner would be hooked up to a kind of electric chair and would be expected to do as he is being told by the teacher and do it right because; whenever the learner said the wrong word, the intensity of the electric shocks were increased. Similar procedure was undertaken on t...
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Works Cited
Baumrind, Diana. “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience.” From
Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Tenth edition. Edited by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Longman Publishers, pp. 371-377, 2008.
Benjamin Jr. Ludy T. & Simpson, Jeffrey A. The Power of the Situation: The Impact of Milgram’s Obedience Studies on Personality and Social Psychology. From American Psychologist. Vol. 64 (1), pp.12-18, 2009.
Milgram, Stanley. Issues in the Study of Obedience: A Reply to Baumrind. From American Psychologist. Vol. 19, pp.848-852, 1964.
Milgram, Stanley. “The Perils of Obedience.” From Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Tenth edition. Edited by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Longman Publishers, pp.358-371, 2008.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that obedience to authority can be hazardous especially when morals and autonomous thought are suppressed to an extent that the other person is harmed.
- Analyzes how milgram conducted experiments with the objective of knowing how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered by an experimental scientist.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram's 'the perils of obedience' testifies that individuals can go as far as causing serious harm to the other people.
- Explains that obedience to authority can be hazardous especially when morals and autonomous thought are suppressed to an extent that the other person is harmed.
- Analyzes how milgram conducted experiments with the objective of knowing how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered by an experimental scientist.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram's 'the perils of obedience' testifies that individuals can go as far as causing serious harm to the other people.
- Analyzes how the two authors perceived ethics from different perspectives. milgram found the experiments unethical or immoral because there were no reported cases of complains from the subjects.
- Analyzes how baumrind argues that milgram's experiments were immoral, based on psychological distress, trickery, and the absence of informed consent.
- Analyzes how milgram's experiments on obedience serve as a fundamental basis for understanding conditions of experiments to not only ordinary citizens but psychologists and psychology students as well.
- Analyzes milgram's argument that situations can cause an individual to display a high level of obedience. the experiments demonstrated the dangers that obedience holds as argued by psychologists.
- Analyzes milgram's argument that the experiments were of immense significance in understanding a wide range of real life issues. baumrind finds the conclusions drawn from the experiment as being inadequate.
- Explains milgram's obedience studies on personality and social psychology, from writing and reading across the curriculum.
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- Analyzes how stanley milgram selected 40 college participants aged 20-50 to take part in the experiment at yale university.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram provides a clear and well-thought-out organization to his article. he did not use technical jargon and complicated wording.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram's "the perils of obedience" is an eye-opening experiment that tests the true obedience of people under authority figures.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram selected 40 college participants aged 20-50 to take part in the experiment at yale university.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram provides a clear and well-thought-out organization to his article. he did not use technical jargon and complicated wording.
- Analyzes how the use of direct quotes supports milgram's studies. they help the organization of the article and make it clear and engaging.
- Analyzes how milgram's experiment gained an effective purpose with the use of a real-world example. the shock experiments show that people are obedient to authority figures under any circumstances.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram's article is effective, but it does have examples that may go against his intentions.
- Analyzes how stanley milgram's experiment shows societies that more people with abide by the rules of an authority figure than follow their own nature instinct.
- Describes milgram, stanley, and rosen's "the perils of obedience." writing and reading across the curriculum.
1490 wordsRead More - A Summary of "The Perils of Obedience"analytical essayIn "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. Through the experiments, Milgram discovered that the majority of people would go against their own decisions of right and wrong to appease the requests of an authority figure.
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- Explains that stanley milgram conducted a study that tested the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience.
- Describes how the experiment was set up as a "blind experiment" to capture if and when someone will stop inflicting pain on another as they are explicitly commanded to continue.
- Analyzes how gretchen brandt was a subject in the experiment who supported milgram's and other psychologists' predictions regarding the outcome.
- Explains that stanley milgram conducted a study that tested the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience.
- Describes how the experiment was set up as a "blind experiment" to capture if and when someone will stop inflicting pain on another as they are explicitly commanded to continue.
- Analyzes how gretchen brandt was a subject in the experiment who supported milgram's and other psychologists' predictions regarding the outcome.
- Explains that the majority of subjects obeyed the experimenters' orders by administering the highest voltage three times. the results were the same when milgram tested "ordinary" people.
- Analyzes how the subjects of milgram's experiment had different ways to cope with their situation and justify their obedience. fred prozi consulted with the experimenter in hopes of a direct resolution and was continually swayed to carry on.
- Explains that ordinary people would shock the victim out of a sense of obligation, and were not naturally aggressive or sadistic.
- Analyzes how milgram found that people would ignore their own moral judgments to obey orders while under the influence of an authority figure. the perils of obedience portrays the conflict between authority and one's own conscience.
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