Explanations For Obedience

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    • What are the two explanations for obedience?
      Legitimacy of authority and agentic state
    • What is obedience?
      Following direct orders from an authority figure
    • What is a social hierarchy?
      A power structure with unequal authority
    • How does the legitimacy of authority explain obedience?
      We learn to obey those higher in hierarchy
    • What is moral strain according to Milgram?
      Conflict between obeying and avoiding responsibility
    • What is the agentic state?
      Shifting responsibility to the authority figure
    • What is the autonomous state?
      Acting of one's own free will
    • What is the agentic shift?
      Shifting from autonomous state to agentic state
    • What does Milgram’s agency theory state?
      Obeying authority shifts responsibility to them
    • Who came up with the Agency Theory?
      Milgram
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