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AQA Obedience; situational explanations
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- Social influence
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in-depth notes on obedience: situational explanations as part of social influence in paper, one of psychology, including evaluation.
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Ob-E.sitnw.es/piainationsExpeaination1:Agentic stateAgentic tale act on
behalf of another
-
:
person
-
Magnin proposed that obedience to destructive authority occurs because a person become
@come one
' '
an agent Who acts
for or in place of another .
In state actions
an
agentic a
person feels no
personal responsibility for their
Autonomous state
-
not an agent
' '
or
Autonomy means to be independent free so a person in an autonomous
.
according to their principles and feels responsible their action:
state behaves for
Agentic shift
-
moving to
agentic state
the shift
'
to
being
'
is called the agelhtie shift Milgrom
autonomy
' '
from an
agent
.
suggested that this occurs when we peoeieve someone else as an
authority
their position in
figure This person has power because
of a
.
social
hierarchy
.
'
Binding factors moral
'
-
reduce strain
Binding factors are aspects of a situation that allows the person to
ignore
'
or minimise the damaging effect of their behaviour and reduce moral
!tnat feel
strain
they
.
Milgrim proposed a number
of strategies the individual uses , such as
shifting the responsibility to the victim or denying the
damage they
to
are doing victims .
Explanation 2: Legitimacy of authority .
we
obey people further up a social
hierarchy
WB
most societies are structured heirarchaically .
People in certain
positions
mold authority over the rest Ceg :
parents , teachers)
Authorities have legitimacy society 's
through aggreement .
won the power that authorities weird is legitimate because it is agreed by
society .
Most
of us
except that
authority figures should exersrice social
to
power over others to allow society function smoothly .
hand to
we control over
authority figures
nor People with legitimate authority have the power to
punish others .
we
some independence to trust to
authority
give up people we exerseice
properly .
we learn to accept authority during childhood ceg :
parents ,
teachers)
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