Obedience
The obedience or tender with the authority is one of the forms of the social Influence. In social Psychology, one speaks about obedience when a person adopts a different behavior because another individual, perceived like a source of authority, asks him. The dominated individual recognizes with a person, or a government an unquestionable value. When this recognition is made, the individual makes a tacit agreement then, an assent with the superior whom he recognized; He exchanges his freedom against the general will to be assured and protected.
Stanley Milgram and the tender with the authority
The most known research on obedience is due to the psychological American Stanley Milgram. In its experiment of tender to the authority, it leads normal people to inflict increasingly strong electric shocks on another subject (in fact an accomplice, i.e. an experimenter which claims to be an experimental subject) which begs to stop the experiment then shouts and is keep silent, as if it were victim of a faintness.
Significance of obedience
The social psychologists quote readily the phenomenon of obedience like the explanation of dramatic historical events like the massacre of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lai or the attitude of Adolf Eichmann which, at the time of its lawsuit with Jerusalem, justified its participation in the genocide Nazi by his duty of civil servant.
Religion
Obedience is one of the three evangelic Conseils. The Benedictines have a rule of obedience.
| Random links: | Sony Music Entertainment | Duck with pointed tail | Sylvie Nerson-Rousseau | County of Sangri | Radio Nice | L'Alexandrie,_Minnesota |