Obedience: Culture Flashcards
What is an individualist culture?
A nation that promotes independence and individual achievement.
Promotes self expression, individual thinking and personal choice.
Based on egalitarian relationships (equal rights and opportunities)
How does an individualist culture relate to obedience levels?
An individualist culture is less likely to obey because there has been an emphasis on free will as they have grown up.
What is a collectivist culture?
A nation that promotes interdependence and collective achievement
Promotes hierarchy roles with leaders and followers
Encourages stereotypical roles and old beliefs.
How does a collectivist culture relate to obedience levels?
Individuals are more likely to obey as disobedience brings shame on the collective.
Punishments is also more likely to occur if individuals are disobedient.
Describe the process of Burley and McGuiness variation of Milgrams experiment
Burley and McGuiness replicated the experiment in the Uk with male participants.
Results showed that 50% of individuals were obedient all the way to 450V, the results showed a lower obedience level compared to the USA.
This could be due to the idea that America is more authoritarian than the Uk as they follow more dominant and patriotic politics seriously.
However, the Uk is more democratically relaxed and government is more likely to be ridiculed as people are more free to share their opinions publicly without being shamed.
There is more coercive power and control in the USA which makes people more obedient.
Describe the process of Ancona and Pareysons variation of Milgrams experiment
Ancona and Pareyson replicated Milgrams experiment on students in Italy.
Results found that 85% of participants were obedient all the way to 450V.
This could be because Italy is a collectivity culture so individuals are more obedient.
What percentage of participants were obedient all the way to 450V in Italy?
85%
