+ homebound 3.Witness marriage 6.visits the funeral parlor to say the prayers for the dead The Priest *a special order priest like the Jesuits takes 3 vows: celibacy, obedience+ poverty The Bishops -3rd order of Holy Orders -must be a priest -He is in charge of a diocese (which is made up of parishes, schools, hospitals, etc) -His role is leader+ teacher -He can ordain a man to Holy Orders -Bishop of Brooklyn is: Nicholas De Marzio Bishop of Rome: Pope Francis Monk -a monk is an ordained
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The Milgram Experiment The Milgram Study is a study of social obedience and human interaction with authority figures and conformity. The study began in July of 1961, and was conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. The date the experiment began hold some historical significance – it is three months after the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann began. As stated, the experiment was to study the interactions humans have with authority figures, but the trial
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Society’s Tendency to Pass on Responsibility The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley Milgram is one of the most studied experiments in American history due to its wide-ranging social implications. The study gained popular attention because it aimed to provide some insight as to why the Holocaust had escalated in such a way. The study was designed around testing the degree of inflicted pain strangers would give to others, under orders by an experimenter. Not only did the study defy
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In Milgram’s article, the Peril’s of Obedience an American psychologist teacher at Yale University firml believed that humans were naturally aggressive or only under authority. He conducted an experiment where The teacher is a genuinely naïve subject who has come to the laboratory for the experiment. The learner, or victim, is actually an actor who receives no shock at all. The point of the experiment is to see how far a person will proceed in a concrete and measurable situation in having to
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her strength. • Juliet uses word play to make resistance sound like obedience: she'll do what her mother asks, but not a jot more. • Juxtaposed with the Nurse's reflections on Juliet's childhood is Lady Capulet's discussion of the proposed match between Juliet and Paris. In her relationship with Juliet, Lady Capulet seems distant and cold, expecting Juliet's complete obedience in agreeing to the marriage. Juliet is clearly reluctant to agree to the arranged marriage as she says demurely: "It is
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TCA #2 Social Behavior 1. Obedience a) This photograph represents the obedience of the Jews during the Holocaust. They knew that they were helpless when they were subject to Nazi control, and that they could either go along with what they are told, or they could fight it and subsequently be killed. This group of people are following the commands of their leaders and have given up all of their freedoms to obey the rules of the Nazis. b) This image targets the Jews subject to the
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Obedience and Charity: Still the Same Obedience and charity were values among cultures that were treated with a great deal or respect. These cultural values depicted the being of a person. If someone obeyed a rule or aspect of culture, they were considered respectful or obedient. If someone completed charity, they were considered generous, helping and sympathetic. These values are not of no importance, they are to be taken with great respect. Obedience and charity can be showed throughout
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Obedience. In July of 1963 a psychologist by the name of Stanley Milgram eternally sealed his fate in psychological journals almost over-night with a single study, the obedience to authority figures experiment. The original point and intended purpose of the experiment was to see how long a subject would inflict pain on another in order to please an authority figure. The entire experiment was designed to answer the increasingly relevant question at the time, “Could the Nazi’s have just
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Conformity and Obedience The term Social Influence is used to describe what happens when an individual’s opinions, behaviours of emotions are affected or changed due to the influences of another person or persons. This might be Normative Social Influence or Informational Social Influence. Normative often results in compliance as people often put their own opinions to one side and go along with the majority whereas informational could well be minority led, as it is based on an informed point
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overthrow of a government or social order for a new system. 12. Pope: The head of the Roman Catholic Church. 13. Patriarch: The male head of a family or tribe. 14. Parliament: A national representative body having supreme legislative powers within the state. 15. Papacy: The office of the Pope. 16. Nun: A member of a religious community of women, esp. a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. 17. Morality: Principles concerning the distinction
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Ethics in the Name of Science: A detailed Comparison Between Milgram and Zimbardo’s Internationally Renowned Attempts at Ethics in Social Science Experiments David Baxter Park University SO220 Ethical Issues in Social Science Kris Reichart-Anderson 2 October 2011 Abstract For years many experiments have been scrutinized for their ineffective use or lack of establishment of ethical principles within their research. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram’s Obedience
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Discuss research into conformity (8 marks) – Theory based NSI/ISI ZIMARDO WITTENBRINK AND HENLY This is a direct form of social influence where the individual has less choice in whether they give way or not. (obedience to authority) The individual is faced with the choice of whether to comply with a direct order from a person with higher status, or whether to defy the order. Social Influence Motivation Obedience Direct order from someone with perceived authority Fear of punishment
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The Discoveries of Obedience Obedience; what does the word really mean? According to Griggs (2012), “Obedience is following the commands of a persons authority”(p.331). A psychologist named Milgram decided to take obedience deeper and studied it from the history to his basic discoveries and later results. Taking a look back at history for example, “My Lai Massacre, where soldiers were ordered to shoot the innocent villagers, including children, women and the elderly”(Griggs 2012). This is a
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RESEARCH ON STANLEY MILGRAM One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram (1963) wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. He examined justifications for acts of
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elevator? Can you loan my $5? Will you not smoke in here?” * Ex: Zimbardo’s prison study-If he asks subjects something, would they do it, acting either like prisoners or prison guards- they complied more than no one ever expected, had to call it off early * Obedience * Following direct commands (Most powerful form of social influence) * Ex: Milgram’s obedience study- would people obey Milgram when ordered to keep shocking someone or would they stop * 2
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together on the balcony. Ash chooses to dress in black just like they do. This is an example of A social categorisation B social comparison C social loafing D social identification (Total for Question 8 = 1 mark) 9 Milgram recruited the sample for his original study of obedience by A recruiting men from a local factory B putting posters up in parks C advertising in a local newspaper D asking for volunteers from the university (Total for Question 9 = 1 mark) 10 Holding and keeping information in
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obedience. The Parson on the contrary, makes good decisions and follows vows that show respect for God. The Monk and the Parson are both on the same journey, yet there are substantial variations in the way they go about making decisions in their lives. Chaucer especially expresses similarities and differences in their way of living. Chaucer chooses these contrasting characters, the Monk as bad and the Parson as good, in order to display both the dishonesty and purity in the church. A Monk has
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Matthew Dollar Professor Jones English 1101 Section 70 November 18, 2014 Response Remix: Obedience in Human Nature The Collins English Dictionary Defines Human Nature as “the qualities common to Humanity” (Human Nature). These are the things that separate us from other species. The way we think, act, and communicate with each other. It has been suggested by some that one such quality is obedience. Specifically, our obedience to a perceived authority, even when it means abandoning our own
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Dear Mr Baddeley, I am writing in response to your letter of complaint about my obedience experiment. I feel that I have done nothing wrong I would like to convince you that I have in no way ashamed the BPS. Firstly, my work was of practical value as it showed that individuals have a tendency towards destructive obedience. I believe that by showing the results of this experiment, it would have wider benefits to society as it could avoid such incidents in the future, as the one which
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A Lesson of Trust, Faith, and Obedience Through out the history of mankind, there have been many people who have taken dangerous risks and adventures. Few risked their own lives to try something new that people normally wouldn’t. For example, Lewis and Clark chose to go and investigate the United States. This was a scary and questionable experience, and not many supported it. But the journey they took gave us our sweet America, or in other words, our home. Others like Columbus sought land
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Himanshi Jesrani LALW 200 – 03 Essay #1 September 19, 2014 Facing the Challenge The biblical story of Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22) poses a crucial test for both the father and son as God challenges Abraham to offer his son as a sacrifice. As he follows God’s commands, the primary aim of the test is to teach Abraham that obedience and commitment are vital to keeping covenants. Obedience to covenant obligations bring a guarantee of the fulfillment of God’s promises and fresh bestowal of the
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focuses on dehumanisation since humans usually have moral inhibitions about killing others, but this changes if the target group is dehumanised so that its members are seen as worthless animals and therefore aren’t worthy of moral consideration. For example, in the Rwandan genocide the influential Hutu-controlled radio station encouraged Hutu listeners to murder their Tutsi neighbours by calling the minority Tutsi cockroaches. Genocide focuses secondly on obedience to authority. Milgram said
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Public Obedience to Trainee Police Officers Report aims: • Outline Milgram’s obedience study work. • Explain how the findings can help prepare trainee police officers for working within the community. • Explain why the work of Milgram relates to trainee police officers working with the public in the community. Background Stanley Milgram was a psychologist. After the Second World War he sought to find out how ordinary people could commit extraordinary acts of violence. He conducted
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Experiment. This research reports on how certain people react when placed in positions of authority over others. Milgram preformed a series of studies on "Obedience to Authority," which began at Yale University. Milgram’s experiment proved how people will obey authority even when it violates their core values and leads them to harm others. According to Milgram in “The Perils of Obedience,” “For many people, obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed a potent impulse overriding
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). These actions show how deeply distressed the participants were. The participants themselves questioned the ethics of the study at the time. Milgram described instances where subjects became engrossed in the technical machinery, possibly seeing themselves as mere technicians so as to transfer ethical responsibility to the experimenter, (Milgram, Obedience to Authority, 1974). Milgram termed this an ‘agentic state’, the participants stop seeing themselves as responsible and see themselves as an
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History of Ancient Sparta Sparta became very powerful in the 5th century B.C. This was caused by the other city states growing fear of Sparta’s armies. Their armies consisted of every male citizen of Sparta. This city-state focused on boys physical fitness, courage and obedience and they made sure the females were strong and healthy so that they could have good, strong children. This is why Sparta is known for being a military-minded city. What most people do not know is that before the
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Conformity and obedience P3 Conformity means that you do something the same as someone else, in accordance to social standards or rules set or an agreement. Obedience is when you listen to someone; to obey is when you follow an order from someone who is of a higher authority than you are. There are 2 types of conformity Private conformity: change of beliefs that occur when a person privately accepts the position taken by others. Public conformity: superficial change in overt behavior
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Obedience and Conformity Experiments Response Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes”. In the experiment videos we watched, the subjects had obedience and believed in the authority figure in each setting. If these subjects did not believe or be obedient to the authority figure, the experiment would not have worked. I feel like obedience to an authority figure is something that is naturally instilled in us. When we were
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Evaluation points: Explanations of Obedience Agentic state Milgram’s participants knew it was wrong but put the responsibility on the experimenter At the Nuremberg Trials many Nazis said they were just following orders It explains why some people do not obey – they have stayed in the autonomous state A weakness is that there is no evidence that this shift takes place and it cannot be measured. The theory is vague and does not explain fully why or how the shift takes place. One way
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English Ellie Friedman 2/25/15 Haimon’s Character Analysis When Haimon first appears in Antigone by Sophocles, he expresses obedience towards his father, King Creon of Thebes. In the beginning of Scene III, Haimon comes to his father to discuss his fiancée’s (Antigone) death sentence, the very first thing he tells his father is, “ I am your son, father. You are my guide. You make things clear for me, and I obey you” (III, 216). Here, Haimon states that his father is his moral
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