0.5 Obedience - social-psychological factors
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what are the social-psychological factors effecting obedience
agentic state
legitimacy of authority
what does agentic state mean
not personally responsible for their actions
acting as the agent of who’s in authority
just following orders
what is the opposite of agentic state
autonomous state
individuals direct their own behaviour and are responsible for the consequences
what is the agentic shift
when someone moves from autonomous state to agentic state
what supports agency theory
Milgrams experiment
people obeyed despite clearly being distressed - moral strain
what is legitimacy of authority
explanation for obedience - we are more likely to obey people we perceive to have authority over us
if it is justified (legitimate) and they do have a position of power they then have the right to tell us what to do
what did Kelman and Harrington suggest
3 main factors explaining obedience
legitimacy of the system
legitimacy of authority in the system
legitimacy of demands or orders given
limitation of all explanations
cultural differences
individual differences
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