Summary of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The experiment was to see how far a person would go in a concrete and measurable situation in which he was ordered to inflict increasing pain on a protesting victim. At what point would the subject refuse to obey the experimenter.
#2 The Milgram experiment was designed to see how people would respond to a clear moral imperative. It found that a substantial proportion of subjects would continue to the last shock on the generator even when the person they were shocking begged them not to.
#3 The most fundamental lesson of the experiment is that ordinary people, who are simply doing their jobs, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Many people were unable to realize their values in action, and continued participating in the experiment even though they disagreed with what they were doing.
#4 The most common adjustment of thought in the obedient subject is to see himself as not responsible for his actions. He divests himself of responsibility by attributing all initiative to the experimenter, a legitimate authority.

Sujets

• Emotions
• Emotion
• Psychology
• Emotions (álbum)
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822510456
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The experiment was to see how far a person would go in a concrete and measurable situation in which he was ordered to inflict increasing pain on a protesting victim. At what point would the subject refuse to obey the experimenter.

#2

The Milgram experiment was designed to see how people would respond to a clear moral imperative. It found that a substantial proportion of subjects would continue to the last shock on the generator even when the person they were shocking begged them not to.

#3

The most fundamental lesson of the experiment is that ordinary people, who are simply doing their jobs, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Many people were unable to realize their values in action, and continued participating in the experiment even though they disagreed with what they were doing.

#4

The most common adjustment of thought in the obedient subject is to see himself as not responsible for his actions. He divests himself of responsibility by attributing all initiative to the experimenter, a legitimate authority.

#5

The experimenter’s commands become part of a schema that exerts on the subject’s mind a force that transcends the personal. The subject does not ask the seemingly obvious question, Whose experiment. The wishes of a man, the designer of the experiment, have become part of a schema that exerts on the subject’s mind a force that transcends the personal.

#6

The study found that many people were against what they did to the learner, but they could not bring themselves to make an open break with authority. They were unable to transform their beliefs into action.

#7

The problem of obedience is not entirely psychological. The form and shape of society and the way it is developing have a lot to do with it. When there is a division of labor among men, it takes away from the human quality of work and life.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The key to effective scientific inquiry is simplicity. To study obedience, we must create a situation in which one person orders another person to perform an observable action and note when obedience occurs and when it doesn’t.

#2

To recruit subjects, an advertisement was placed in the local newspaper. It called for people of all occupations to take part in a study of memory and learning, and it offered $4 payment and 50 cents carfare for one hour of participation.

#3

The subjects in the experiment were postal clerks, high school teachers, salesmen, engineers, and laborers. The subjects ranged in educational level from one who had not finished high school to those who had doctoral and other professional degrees.

#4

The experiment was conducted in the Interaction Laboratory of Yale University. The role of experimenter was played by a thirty-one-year-old high school teacher of biology. The victim was played by a forty-seven-year-old accountant, trained for the role.

#5

The electric chair experiment was designed to test how subjects would respond to being punished for making a mistake.