004 Mcleod

With the Milgram’s experiment, they concluded that regular, normal, ordinary people tend to follow whatever is given to follow by an authority figure and sometimes that is just second nature. The way we were raised, was to obey and follow the rules from our parents and family. They say that obedience to authority is ingrained in us and sometimes we can’t do anything about it. They used the Milgram experiment to show how no matter what the case is, if people have to follow an order, they will do it.

In Sociology class last year in Highschool we had this topic and I was very into it. I agree as well as disagree with some of the things he has to say. I agree with the fact that of course we follow authority from the ones around us but to a certain extent, we have boundaries where some of us won’t cross a certain line like that. People will put others in extreme danger and they will follow it just because of the obedience to authority that they had ingrained in them. It was crazy that the guy would get shocked everytime he made a mistake and me personally, if I was ordered to do that, I would not be able to no matter what the situation would be.