Obedience; social-psychological factors
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- Created on: 18-02-20 15:08
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- Obedience: Social-psychological factors
- Agentic state
- feels no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure
- frees us from demands of our consciences & allows us to obey destructive authority figures
- agent is not an unfeeling puppet - experience moral strain when they know they are doing something wrong but feel powerless to disobey
- feels no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure
- Autonomous state
- free to behave according to their own principles and feels responsible for their actions
- shift from autonomy to angency is called Agentic Shift
- Milgram suggested this occurs when a person percieves someone as a figure of authority
- person has greater power because of their position in a social hierarchy
- Milgram suggested this occurs when a person percieves someone as a figure of authority
- Binding Factors
- Milgram; why does the individual remains in this agentic state?
- Aspects of the situation that allow the person to ignore or minimise the damaging effect of their behaviour and reduce moral strain
- Milgram proposed a number of strategies the individual uses, such as shifting responsbility to the victim
- Legitimacy of authority
- we are more likely to obey people who we percieve to have authority over us
- justified by the individual's position of power within a social hierarchy
- we learn acceptance of legitamcy of authority in childhood
- we are more likely to obey people who we percieve to have authority over us
- Destructive Authority
- history shows powerful leaders such as Hitler use their legitimate powers for destructive purposes
- was shown in Milgram's study when experimenter used prods to order participants to behave in ways that went against their consciences
- Agentic state
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