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Authority Is An Unknown Entity
To be honest, we are not sure what exactly is authority. Very often we hear this word in different contexts — organizations, politics, parenthood, school system, everyday life. But when we ask ourselves what the meaning of this word is, we can’t give a precise definition. So, when we take a look at this word, we see a lot of different things. And that is our biggest challenge — we ask for authority, but we are not sure what authority is!
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Obedience and Agentic State
In Milgram’s experiment, the participants were presented with a conflict between the moral implications of the task they had (administered shocks as punishment and hurting another person), and obeying authority (listening to the orders given by the Experimenter i...
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Blindly Obeying Authority
Stanley Milgram’s research on obedience to authority was driven by the need to understand the crimes and atrocities done in World War II. He came to the conclusion that evil happens when people blindly obey orders and stop thinking for themselves. In this research, obedience is e...
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Factors that Influence Obedience
Obedience varied significantly depending on the context. The lowest obedience of 10% was noticed when participants saw others disobeying the experimenter and questioning his authority. Also, obedience dropped when the symbols of authority weren’t present (such as the lab coat of the experimenter)...
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How To Prevent Mindless Obedience
Some actions could be connected with understanding what authority means for each of us. Also, we can ask ourselves why we find it important to follow our authorities, what are the benefits of it and who our authorities are.
The next step is developi...
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- Explain why the use of the definition is inappropr...
What is Research Paradigm?
Greek word meaning 'pattern'
Whenever we think of doing research, we get a few thoughts such as:
- 'How do we plan to do this research?'
- 'What will be my approach to the investigation?'
- 'Will I do Qualitative or Quanti...
What We Value
What we are passionate about is often superficial, but what we value, we can do no matter how difficult the circumstances, because we derive meaning and value from it. It is different from a compulsion or an addiction.
We need to ask three questions to direct our energy:
- What ...
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