Agentic State and Legitimacy of Authority
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- Created on: 05-01-20 18:17
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Agentic State and Legitimacy of Authority -
The Agentic State...
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- A common way of thinking of the obedient individuals is that they see themselves as not been responsible for their own actions.
- Instead they see the responsibility as to be caused by another person (figure of authority)
- Milgram referred to this process of shifting responsibility's of one person's actions onto someone else as agentic state.
- Agentic shift involves moving from the autonomous state (where a person takes responsibility for their own actions) to agentic state (when a person sees themselves as an agent to carry out someone else's wishes)
- A common way of thinking of the obedient individuals is that they see themselves as not been responsible for their own actions.
- Self Image and the Agentic State...
- One reason why people adopt an agentic state is to maintain a positive self image
- Tempted to do as requested and shock the learner, the participants may assess the consequences of this actions and percieve their self image and refrain.
- Once the participant has moved into the agentic state, the evaluative…
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