Key words

• Social etiquette - "binds" people to authority figures; defying them may seem arrogant, but even when minor about what is requested, it is still performed
• Agentic Shift - the change from autonomous to agentic
• Agentic state - giving up our free will to serve the interests of the wider group, as agents for those of power/authority - only secondarily individuals (deindividuated)
• Autonomous state - we feel free to act as we wish/how our conscience dictates; opposite of agentic state
• Socialisation - process by which we learn the rules and norms of society, through agents of socialisation (teachers, parents, etc)
• Displacing Responsibility - responsibility shifts to those in charge, and personal responsibility is denied
• Moral Strain - result of having to do something immoral to function in an agentic state, denial is often used to avoid the distress and diffusion of responsibility
• Whistle-blower - goes against authority as they believe what they are doing is wrong
• Perceived Legitimate Authority - has to be legitimate; e.g. teacher can set you HW but can’t make you wash their car
• Social Hierarchy - a system of social organisation, ranked from top to bottom; societies with organised hierarchy survived, unorganised didn’t (Robin Dunbar), also present as an institutional structure
• Robin Dunbar: Anthropologist, said you could only handle 120-30 friends at max, so communities of 100+ need structure/hierarchies to function