In this weeks discussion board there is one key median that stands out when talking about the experiments of both Asch and Milgram. This median is what we call conflict theory. Conflict theory is a theory which is based on the different standings in social classes. We see conflict theory very prevalent in both experiments but in Asch's experiment we see this the most. In Asch's experiment the residual effects of peer pressure are shown.…
In a social experiment conducted by Solomon Asch of 1951, Asch studied the impact of how social pressure from the majority can affect a person to conform (McLeod). The experiment consisted of one participant in a group of actors and all were asked to match the test line to a line most similar. In revealing their answers, the participant was asked to answer last out of the group while the actors all purposely answered incorrectly. With over 12 trials of the experiment, nearly 75% of the participants conformed to answering the question incorrectly at least once. This trend of conformity is also seen in today’s social influence.…
People’s beliefs can change in a blink of an eye. It happens every day, in every household, every school, and every workplace. Sometimes people are forced into situations they would not like to be in. In The Nuremberg Trials, Gang Rape by Stephanie Chen, Perils of obedience by Stanley Milgram, Pearl Harbor Echoes In Seattle by Monica Sone, and the book Night by Elie Wiesel, normal individuals are faced with pressure, fear, and survival instincts which force them to change their beliefs.…
In the teleplay “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” , the neighbors change from a group to a mob. When the the neighbors change from a group to a mob, as a result of peer pressure, the reader learns that you shouldn’t make assumptions without evidence. In the teleplay, the neighbors go from a calm group to a hectic mob. For example, Steve states, “ Well I guess what we’d better do then is to run a check on the neighborhood and see which one of us is really human.”.…
A Few Good Men was written by Aaron Sorkin and it is about a lawyer trying to defend two marines accused of murder. The two marines claimed to have received an order to discipline another marine and killed him in the process. The lawyer, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, then has to gather evidence for this claim and eventually get Colonel Jessep to state he gave the marines the order. The story encompasses many factors of obedience to authority and peer pressure and shows what can happen when orders are followed blindly. Many experiments and studies have taken place to explain why people follow orders even if it might violate their morals and result in someone getting hurt.…
There is upward and downward social comparison, unanimity, and low self-esteem. These at times can also boost people’s self-concepts. The size of the majority also affects conformity, the more the people, the more of the chance of conforming increases (Durlauf 136). People always seek to evaluate their beliefs and abilities by comparing it with others. The feelings of censure occur when people feel like they do not live up to or fail at behaving with the norms of society or their acceptable ways of their group (Durlauf 137).…
People conform everyday to the smallest things such as getting a water instead of a pop and following cake recipes. Solomon E. Asch, who is a social psychologist at Rutgers University, ran an experiment called Opinions and Social Pressure. Philip G. Zimbardo who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University, ran a study titled The Stanford Prison Experiment. Both of these experiments prove that by human nature, people are scared to go against the norm because they fear the feeling of being judged, different, and the mere idea of being alone.…
People tend to base their opinions off other’s because of group conformity, social standards, and peer pressure. Many people tend to base their view point off of others because their afraid they could be wrong. In agreeance with Mark Twain and his portions of his story, “Corn-pone Opinions,” explicitly states and is accurately right in today’s society on how humans give into the crowd or the majority vote. One of the ways that people tend to conform is because they are scared to be wrong. When one person is wrong, they stand out, they are more noticeable.…
Have you ever watched a movie where the enemy has injured a character and you watch as the character dies and you just sit there wondering, “why didn't anyone help them?” If you saw a two year old girl laying in the street, bleeding to death from being ran over twice, would you help her? “Yeah I’d help her.” You think to yourself while you sit there, alone, without someone there to influence you.…
I'm going to talk about Asch and Milgram experiments and discuss whether or not the groups that knew each other versus the groups that don't, to determine whether or not the groups are more susceptible to conformity.” The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.” The Milgram experiment, “was an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.” Now that we know what each experiment is about lets talk about them. First, the Asch experiment, in my own words would be a trial that was ran to ask a series of questions to see if others would answer the question correctly or go with what the vast majority said whether or not the answer…
People are not aware of the importance of having their own opinion and being able to support themselves. In many situations, people agree with others and jump on the bandwagon to “fit in.” Group conformity is when people allow a group to pressure them into believing or doing something they wouldn't do by theirselves. In the Asch Experiment video, you can see a man being influenced to conform and picked the wrong answer because everyone else said that choice (“The Asch Experiment,” 2012). This amazes me that he agreed with everyone else and not once did he go against what they were choosing.…
Research Based Analysis on Obedience and Social Pressure Individuals in today 's society question authority in many different ways. Eventually, life puts people in tricky situations. Individuals who question authority may go along with the situation because they are threatened socially. Everybody obeys words from an authority, but what makes us obey or disobey?…
Some cause great suffering while others appear very helpful and valuable. Whichever group it is, the ultimate end is in the leader's discretion. The psychological method normative social influence is a type of social influence leading to conformity. It is defined in social psychology as the influence of other people…
Milgram’s experiments created great controversy. They showed how vulnerable humans were to the will bending power of authority. This idea especially stuck around the time the experiment took place, the early 1960’s. America was still somewhat fresh off of World War II, and Americans were shocked to see that they were just as capable of being pushed to do things that went against their morals as Germans were under Nazi authorities. Milgram was thorough in his studies by including multiple permutations of the original where he tested subjects responses to different forms of authority.…
Individual people tend to do the thing which is all the more readily accepted by the society, and it is not necessary that the thought is actually correct too. An example of this is that a member of a tribe of cannibals does not think about the cannibalism as right or wrong, but they just accept cannibalism because it is their mode of behavior and practice for a long period of time. All the social sciences are agreed on the fact that humans in groups have a profound effect on the thought procedure of the members. And it is very important to not here that when the pressure is exerted from the group, it is not necessarily the concept of right or wrong that compels the individual to partake in that activity, but rather they bow down under peer pressure .For psychologists, group pressure upon the minds of individuals raises a host of questions they would like to investigate in detail (Asch).…