ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Domestic Violence, It Gets Better Project, Differential Association
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Obedience is the act/habit of doing what one is told or submitting to authority. Obedience is the act of doing what one is told, usually by someone in authority ex: dog is trained to be obedient to owner; military personnel trained to be obedient to commanders. Obedience is different from compliance and conformity compliance is influenced by peers, conformity is behaviour that matches the majority (may be influenced by peers) Obedience is about power, and submitting to authority; most people comply with the rules of society and obey authority in order to avoid public sanctions/punishment. Hofling conducted experiments of obedience in the medical profession. Hofling extended milgram"s obedience experiment (sending electric shocks) into the medical field. He looked to see if nurses would carry out the orders of doctors whom they didn"t know and never met in person experiment had 22 night nurses on duty at a hospital, and hofling created the character dr.
