Free Essays on The State Of Obedience

  1. Conformity and Obedience

    things have emotions; some common emotions in both humans are happiness, joy, excitement, anger, sadness, and depression. Emotions are an affective state of consciousness that often is the incentive or motivation that pushes an individual towards a behavior that will help improve the overall chance of...

  2. Critique of "Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience"

    For most people, obedience is something that is learned during childhood. There are different levels of how obedient a person should be, and much of that has to do with authority. If one volunteers to participate in an experiment, their experimenter has authority over them, and therefore, the volunteer...

  3. Gandhian Perspective on the Indian State

    Gandhian perspective on Indian Nation State Gandhi’s political and moral thought is based upon a simple metaphysics. For him the universe is regulated by a supreme intelligence or the principle which he called TRUTH or GOD. It is embodied in all living beings and above all in Man, in the form of as...

  4. What Reasons Did the United States Have for Using the Aromic Bombs Toward Japan 1945?

    weight to their arguments and help them achieve diplomatic objectives[12]. It was agreed that the latter attitude should be adopted and the United States should stay ahead in production and research[13]. As a result of his view that the atomic bomb held great importance to international relations, Stimson...

  5. What What

    » * The Obedience Experiments . Yale University psychologist the study. Would Milgram find less obedience if he conducted his experiments today? The... * Obedience . Secondly, the author explains that irrational obedience has a connection with the...

  6. Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem

    evolve because of it, and he even states that obedience could usher in the end of mankind. However, Fromm concedes by stating “that [not] all disobedience is a virtue and all obedience is a vice.” He then continues by differentiating the different types of obedience and the pros and cons between each...

  7. Hydrogen Fuel Cells

    people have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. However, Erich Fromm, one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished writers and thinkers disagrees with this argument. He believes that the act of disobedience leads to freedom, the act of obedience is disobeying its own...

  8. The Power of Conformity

    The Power of Conformity Obedience. This is not a word that needs any explanation. The act of obedience is subconsciously ingrained in the minds of all humans. The harsh lesson of obedience is practiced from infancy throughout a human’s lifespan. Man is prone to obey authority as a product of fear...

  9. Complying with the Commands

    specific person. We are taught as United State Marines to obey our higher ups. Well, being enlisted in the United States Military, active duty or reserve, we take the following oath; “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;...

  10. Following guidelines orders

    relate to the military? Well, when a person enlists in the United States Military, active duty or reserve, they take the following oath; “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true...

  11. Milgram (1963)

    Milgram (1963) claimed that destructive obedience is not a consequence of moral weakness or an evil character; rather it is a response to a particular set of situational factors. Evaluate this statement. In order to evaluate this statement it is important to first understand what Milgram meant. This...

  12. An Evaulation of Erich Fromm's Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem

    Fromm calmly yet scarily says, “Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be, terminated by an act of obedience.” The disobedience Fromm is speaking of is universal in its mythological roots. He describes how Adam and Eve of Hebrew mythology achieved their own...

  13. The Benifits of Not Obeying Orders

    first glance the title and the purpose of this paper is to explain the benefits of not obeying orders given to you from your superiors in the United States Army. But as you can imagine and I hope it is easy for you to realize common sense would tell you that of course there are no benefits to not obeying...

  14. Ethical Values of the Milgram Experiment

    psychologist from Yale University, conducted a famous experiment on obedience. For thousands of years people have been ruled by laws. These laws influenced the obedience of the individual. Milgram’s experiment tested these individuals and their obedience. However by today’s standards Milgran’s experiment presented...

  15. Military Mission Success: Following Orders

    get hit by a car. When a you enlist in the United States Military, active duty or reserve, you take the following oath; “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true...

  16. A Direction or Instruction

    to standard The ability to follow orders would be defined as obedience. Obedience to prevent chaos is part of our everyday routine. For example, obedience when driving is necessary. When officers give orders in traffic situations, obedience is critical for traffic to flow, thus citizens to get around...

  17. UOP PSYCH 555 Week 6 Individual Influences of Conformity and Obedience Paper

    UOP PSYCH 555 Week 6 Individual Influences of Conformity and Obedience Paper Check this A+ tutorial guideline at http://www.assignmentcloud.com/PSYCH-555/PSYCH-555-Week-6-Individual-Influences-of-Conformity-and-Obedience-Paper Prepare a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper in which you evaluate the effect...

  18. Man and Society: Obedience to Authority

    Obedience To Authority Obedience has appeared since the born of the civilization. Even in the primitive human society there was authority, in the face of the tribal ruler, who people obey to. With the development of the civilization situation became even more complicated. There appeared plenty of...

  19. Obedience to Orders

    Obedience to orders is important because higher ranking individuals are put into positions to which they should be able to handle and lead younger Marines. So at the time an order or request is made despite how one feels about the request it must be done and done without question and as efficiently as...

  20. Obeying an Direct Order

    relate to the military? Well, when a person enlists in the United States Military, active duty or reserve, they take the following oath; “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true...

  21. Militarist

    the world war. FRANCE - Nazi began in Poland, now reaching france. June 1940 - nazi victories in europe. japanese empire run with police state - obedience is demanded. any opposition is rooted out. more than 13,000 civillians died. * Relevance to the book *their fear of western dominance...

  22. kill

    respect, and disrespect are and the history behind these acts are. I will first give the definitions of military discipline; which is a state of order and obedience existing within a command. ay look at you, Discipline helps to complete certain jobs/instructions efficiently and correctly. in the military...

  23. African American Christianity

    influence slaves at the level of their spiritual life in order to prevent rebellions and oppositions. Christianity with its significant concept of obedience could contribute to the development of the necessary ideology and slaves’ vision of their reality. A lot of African-American slaves were forced to...

  24. The Succession of Commanders

    relate to the military? Well, when a person enlists in the United States Military, active duty or reserve, they take the following oath; “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true...

  25. Man Killer

    human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state. It may seem odd to some to dispute this, given the apparently ceaseless flow of atrocity reports from Bosnia, Somalia, Lebanon and Los Angeles that...

  26. Military Discipline And Grooming Standard

    character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement:” it also says it is a systematic method to obtain obedience. Discipline starts from within so it gives stability in time of rapid change. Part of a result of a disciplined life is that discipline helps a soldier...

  27. Stanley Milgram Obedience Study

    Table Interpretation This table summarises the predictions and results of Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience. The first part shows the predictions that both psychiatrists and college students made before the study took place. This clearly shows that taken as an average the college students would go...

  28. PSY 301 (NEW) ASH Course Tutorial/TutorialRank

    Attributions ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 Assignment Persuasion Who, What, To Whom ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 1 Persuasion Techniques ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 2 Obedience and Conformity ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 Asssignment Power of Love and Relationships ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 DQ 1 Altruism and ProsocialBehavior ASHFORD...

  29. Essay

    will wander away from our heavenly Father onto other false idols while their souls will then be found by evil. In other words, as the Prophet Jonah states regarding idolatry, “Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love” (Jonah 2:8, ESV). Another prophet from the reading...

  30. An Atmosphere of Good Order

    Discipline is a state of order and obedience existing within a command. It involves the ready subordination of the will of the individual for the good of the group. Military discipline is an extension and specialized application of the discipline demands habitual but reasoned obedience that preserves...

  31. Obedience to parents

    Obedience to Parents Importance After obedience to Allah (s) and His Messenger, it is most important to be obedient to one's parents. Being polite and helpful to one's parents is the duty of every Muslim. Children sometimes do not realize how much their parents have done for them. Every mother...

  32. Milgram's study on obedience to authority

    This essay will discuss Milgram’s study on obedience to authority and the ethical issues it raised for social psychology. To do this one must discuss how people are in fact extremely obedient to authority, how effective Milgram’s study was, how the Holocaust can be explained using Milgram’s study and...

  33. Describe Conformity and Obedience

    Define the terms Conformity and Obedience. Conformity in psychology is basically when a person’s attitude, behaviour, beliefs etc are influenced by other people , it may occur unconsciously as an unconscious influence or by direct social pressure. People often conform to achieve a sense of security...

  34. The Major Values of Classical Greek Culture and How They Impacted on Concepts of Childhood

    and loyalty were both huge factors in Greek culture at this time. Spartan customs had a lot to do with military preparedness and unthinking obedience to the state. (pg24, ch.2). Both boys and girls were trained with specific future roles in mind, boys that of a trained soldier and girls to be mothers...

  35. PSY 301 (NEW) Paper teaching effectively/psy301paperdotcom

    (New) PSY 301 Week 3 Assignment Persuasion Who, What, To Whom (New) PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 1 Persuasion Techniques (New) PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 2 Obedience and Conformity (New) PSY 301 Week 4 Asssignment Power of Love and Relationships (New) PSY 301 Week 4 DQ 1 Altruism and ProsocialBehavior (New) ...

  36. Discuss the Impact and Ethical Status of Milgram’s Studies on Conformity and Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment. Do the Findings of Studies Like These Justify Their Methods?

    the participants would have known what they were getting themselves into. Stanley Milgram (1963) carried out a study ‘Obedience to Authority’ he set out to investigate obedience to authority. In his experiment participants were told that they were acting as teachers in a study on the effects of punishment...

  37. Mass production of obedient citizens

    civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience… We recognize this for Nazi Germany. We know that the problem there was obedience, that...

  38. PSY 301 NEW ASH Tutorial / uophelp

    ............... PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 2 The Acting Self For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com As Feenstra (2011) states in your textbook: “Social psychologists are interested in who we are. Our sense of self is affected by what we know about the self and by the people...

  39. Psychology 9

    may be inaccurate. In class, we studied three psychological experiments, Milgram’s Obedience research, Zimbardo’s Prison study and the John/Joan case study. Samples used in these studies were biased. In Milgram’s Obedience to Authority research, the study used a size of sample of male participants instead...

  40. the world

    environment. Although an important Marxist concept is also recognised by functionalist and feminist. Althusser describes education as an ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) transmitting hidden ideology messages that support capitalism. He argues that the hidden curriculum conditions working class young people...

  41. Old Testament Study

    flood telling Noah that he would never destroy the earth again with water (Gen.:9-11-17). God wants us to have a relationship with him that includes obedience. The Bible tells us in various ways how we should worship, obey and keep the covenant in Genesis. As God’s people progress and build great nations...

  42. its all good

    panhandle town of Marianna, Florida from January 1, 1900, to June 30, 2011. For a time, it was the largest juvenile reform institution in the United States. A second campus was opened in the town of Okeechobee in 1955. Over the years this school began to grow a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, torture...

  43. 1984 Novel - Totalitarian Topics and Their Meanings

    power.Example: Students for an Orwellian Society is dedicated to promotion of the principles of Ingsoc. | Dystopia / Dystopian | An extremely bad state; of deprivation or oppression Opposite of paradise, worst possible world Oceania is a dystopia Dystopia and utopia are subjective | Utopia / Utopian...

  44. PSY/301 Full Class All DQs and Assignments

    study? What theoretical constructs are inherent in social psychology principles? PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 2 The Acting Self (New) As Feenstra (2011) states in your textbook: “Social psychologists are interested in who we are. Our sense of self is affected by what we know about the self and by the people...

  45. Dean Men's Path

    traits and other rational and irrational motivations. These myriad, interrelated responses can in some ways define us but, as the Realist position states, personhood is more than just the sum of these parts. (The Structure of Social Groups, p.33) Being humans and thus social creatures, the various roles...

  46. Normalization

    Standing in his book Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work: love of order, love of work, love of silence and working alone, spontaneous concentration, obedience, independence and initiative, spontaneous self-discipline, attachment to reality, and joy. As you can see, within that list is the freedom for a...

  47. Handmaid's Tale Themes

    to be blank slates. No character in the book is mentioned by their true name, they're only defined by their gender role. Another theme would be obedience. Everyone is passive and silent to their oppression, The women are worse off in the book because they have no social, political or economical power...

  48. The Importance of Accountability

    The importance of accountability Accountability: the quality or state of being accountable; especially: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accountability) Why is accountability important so you know where...

  49. Ancient World

    Many concepts, both political and social , were influenced by the ancient times. The Spartans life was simple, and their focus was on obedience and war. While Athenian life allowed one to pursue several kinds of arts or sciences. While Romans had a republic, which included a king, assemblies senators...

  50. Kohlberg Personality Theory

    Kolhberg’s theory of moral development is put into six stages which represent your full development “good and evil” Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment driven (avoiding punishment) In stage 1, you have no perception of right or wrong and you only know that some things cause punishment, but you can do...

  51. Is Creon Right to Deny Polynieces a Proper Burial?

    defies God by leaving a carcass to rot. Also, familial ties possess more right over the state in any condition. As a matter of fact, Polynieces is actually the rightful owner of Thebes who deserves a decent state burial just like Eteocles but because Creon hates him for what he has done he has declared...

  52. The Knights Templars

    product of both their secular and monastic environment. Members of the Templars were well trained in the outside world before joining. The Rule clearly states that children were not to be admitted to the Order. Knights were to be raised and trained in the secular world at least until they had reached adulthood...

  53. PSY 301 NEW Course Tutorial / shoptutorial

    Attributions (New) PSY 301 Week 3 Assignment Persuasion Who, What, To Whom (New) PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 1 Persuasion Techniques (New) PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 2 Obedience and Conformity (New) PSY 301 Week 4 Asssignment Power of Love and Relationships (New) PSY 301 Week 4 DQ 1 Altruism and ProsocialBehavior (New) ...

  54. Sigmund

    indeed, “there is more to perception than meets the senses? “ Chapter 7: Define hypnosis and give arguments for and against hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness. Compare the major perspectives on why we dream? Chapter 8: Define classical conditioning and behaviorism and describe the basic...

  55. Dear, Mr. Thoreau

    disobedience when displeased with the running of his or her government. When it comes to embarking on the virtue of simplicity, I agree greatly. You state; “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a...

  56. Huxley's a Brave New World vs the Tempest

    on and discusses the behavior of the world state citizens, combined with prenatal treatment. This creates individuals without individuality, each individual programmed to behave exactly like the next, which makes a society dominated by “unthinking obedience” and “infantile behavior”. The directors also...

  57. importance of being on time for formations

    cannot be there at my appointed place of duty, what will the Marines under me think about me? The importance of being on time for formation includes obedience to orders, accountability, and inspiration to my Marines. As an enlisted Marine, there will always be someone of a higher rank to give orders, and...

  58. John Brown

    sacked the “free state” town of Lawrence, guerrilla warfare ensued. The success of the proslavery guerrillas inspired Brown, with four of his sons and two other accomplices, to murder five reputedly proslavery settlers who lived along Pottawottamie Creek. Justifying his action as obedience to the will of...

  59. Liberty BUSI 561 Case Study 1: Business Ethics

    command-and-control, top-down management or leadership by coercion, also referred to as “blind obedience.” ("Corporate culture: The," 2011) The study goes on to suggest that nearly half of those in blind obedience cultures said they had observed unethical behavior in the workplace in the previous year and...

  60. army values

    respect, and disrespect are and the history behind these acts are. I will first give the definitions of military discipline; which is a state of order and obedience existing within a command. ay look at you, Discipline helps to complete certain jobs/instructions efficiently and correctly. in the military...