social-psychological factors of obedience

Question 1

define agentic state.

Answer 1

a mental state where you feel no personal responsibility for you behaviour as we believe we are acting for an authority figure
(acting as an agent for someone else)

Question 2

define autonomous state.

Answer 2

when individuals act according to their principles and feel responsible for their actions.

Question 3

what is an agentic shift?

Answer 3

moving from autonomy to agency - this occurs because we perceive somebody else as higher in the social hierarchy (milgrim)

Question 4

what are binding factors?

Answer 4

what keep people in the agentic state e.g blaming the victim for taking part.

Question 5

what is destructive authority?

Answer 5

when authority figures exploit their legitimate authority to cause destruction -e.g ordering people lower down in the social hierarchy to act in cruel ways.

Question 6

what is legitimacy of authority?

Answer 6

the perceived right of an authority figure to have power and control over others (e.g police) - based on factors such as uniform, location etc.