Summary Paper on The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram Response to his writing Christina Mahoney
Date Submitted: 02/13/2004 21:14:19
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1114 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1114 words)
In Stanley Milgram's, The Perils of Obedience, Milgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment.
Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much …
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…Milgram's experiments show us how we follow orders it does not show us why there are those who do not. I think that for his experiment to be considered complete we need to look at what causes a person to not follow orders or to at the minimum to question authority. In finding the answers to those questions maybe we can see what it is that makes the many follow the orders of the few.
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