Dangers of Blind Obedience in a prison setting
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- Dangers of blind obedience in a prison setting.
- Theories and ideas
- Social Identity Theory- categorizing, identification, comparing, prejudice, discrimination
- Between gaurds and prisoners
- Hitler-Nazi's and Jews
- Abu Ghraib- USA soldiers and Iraqi prisoners.
- Agency theory - agents of figure of aurthority- agentic state, moral strain.
- Same as SIT
- we've been brought up to obey figures of authority. teachers, police, employers.
- Social Identity Theory- categorizing, identification, comparing, prejudice, discrimination
- Applications
- Army training- helped with their orders
- Society- competing with each other.
- Helps to explain traumatic events in the past.
- Weaknesses
- Although this makes USA soldiers 'innocent' in psychology, not in law
- Takes responsibility away from person
- Strengths
- Ethics- removes human blame.
- Milgram
- Strenghts-65% obeyed experiments- higher authority
- Weakness-In a lab- not ecologically valid.
- Hofling
- Weakness- Long time ago where it was frowned upon to disobey doctors.
- Strength- Nurses went against professional training- like soldiers- and obeyed authority.
- Theories and ideas
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