Theories of Obedience
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- Created on: 08-10-17 17:38
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- Theories of Obedience
- To do with multiple individuals in either group.
- Social Impact Theory
- Social force
- Strength
- Concerns the perceived or actual power the source has over you.
- Immediacy
- This concerns how physically close the source of the authority is, and how recent the influence is.
- Numbers
- The numbers of people involved in each group (source and target).
- Strength
- Pyschosocial Law
- This is the idea that the first source of influence has the most impact, then the second, third, fourth... influences have a increasing but decelerating level of impact.
- Divisional effect.
- Individuals feel less accountable as the number of people present increases.
- The more people involved, the less power the authority figure has.
- This can be combated by increasing the power or number of authority figures.
- Social impact = strength x Immediacy x Number.
- Created by Bibb Latane in 1981
- Social force
- Social Impact Theory
- To do with individuals in a situation.
- Agency Theory
- Two mental states
- Autonomous State
- We perceive ourselves to be responsible for our own actions.
- We act on our own free will.
- Agentic state
- We feel like an agent for somebody else's will - we don't worry about our actions as much as the authority figure holds responsibility for our actions.
- Autonomous State
- We perceive some people to be authority figures - they may carry symbols of authority - such as a lab coat.
- An order from an authority figure may trigger an agentic shift into agentic state.
- The Agentic state is appealing because the moral strain is reduced.
- An order from an authority figure may trigger an agentic shift into agentic state.
- Moral Strain
- Sense of anxiety.
- We know something is wrong but we feel powerless as we are further down the social hierarchy.
- There a few techniques used by people to help combat the effects of moral strain.
- Degree of involvement
- Avoidance
- Denial
- Subtly pushing instruction boundaries
- There are also many others that can be applied to specific situations.
- Two mental states
- Agency Theory
- To do with multiple individuals in either group.
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