Milgrams Agency Theory of Obedience
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- Milgram's Agency Theory of Obedience
- Evolution of Obedience
- Human society is hierarchical in nature
- Evolved for a survival function
- Process of socialisation prepares us to be obedient
- e.g as children we learn to obey our parents and teachers by use of rewards an punishment
- Agency and Autonomy
- Agentic State
- Humans see themselves as an agent of the authority figure.
- Humans give up their free will in order to follow instructions and displace responsibility of their actions to the authority
- Autonomous State
- Humans act according to their own free will.
- Feel in control and have the power to make their own decisions. individuals feel in control of their actions
- Humans exist in two different states
- Agentic State
- Evolution of Obedience
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