{"id":1908,"date":"2013-02-07T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2013-02-07T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:56:43","slug":"obedience-to-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2013\/02\/07\/obedience-to-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Obedience to Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ways to teach about authority is to draw upon Stanley Milgram\u2019s famous experiments.\u00a0 As many (if not all) of you know, Milgram designed a series of experiments to see whether people would shock others up to lethal levels when instructed to do so by a scientist. \u00a0In most cases and depending on various situational characteristics, the majority of people complied, showing they would shock someone up to lethal levels. \u00a0You can read more about the experiments on a Backstage Sociologist post, found <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2008\/12\/30\/milgrams-experiment-alive-and-well\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC documentary covered an effort to recreate the experiment a few years ago, which found similar results (with a small number of total participants, however).\u00a0 The entire documentary is on Youtube, but if you&#8217;re worried about time, this 6-minute clip shows the actual experiment and includes brief discussions about authority.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzTuz0mNlwU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used this clip generally to talk about authority as well as more specifically to illustrate how human rights violations may take place. \u00a0This clip is also a great introduction to a discussion about Weber\u2019s types of authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ways to teach about authority is to draw upon Stanley Milgram\u2019s famous experiments.\u00a0 As many (if not all) of you know, Milgram designed a series of experiments to see whether people would shock others up to lethal levels when instructed to do so by a scientist. \u00a0In most cases and depending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10501,461,18655,868],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authority","tag-human-rights","tag-milgram","tag-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}