In the movie The Wave the teacher named Rainer starts an autocratic social experiment during project week with his class. The experiment takes a turn for the worse when a student named Tim pulls out a gun when Rainer tries to end the experiment for getting too out of control. Tim ends up shooting Bomber for saying it fires blanks the he shoots himself after threatening to shoot Rainer. So the big question is, should Rainer be responsible for result of his social experiment? What is needed to form an autocratic government? What was the purpose and target of the social experiment? First of all there are a few things an autocracy needs to come about. It needs support first off. Without support you cannot have a cause or an objective. There also
The experiment was a controlled in the sense that each ‘teacher’ heard the same cries of distress from the next room, they all met the same ‘learner’ and so on. This point of the experiment is important because although they were encouraged to continue, surprisingly few exercised their right to stop, most just did as they were told, which was the basis of the defence for many of those at the Nuremburg trials, which preceded the study; “I was just following orders” Banyard (2012). The results seemed to support the hypothesis that people obey those in a position of authority, and Milgram (1963) carried out many variations of this original study.
Why Mary Surratt should not have been executed Mary Surratt should not have been executed. Mary Surratt could have helped a little bit but not enough she should have been executed. One reason Mary Surratt is innocent is because she didn’t know they were going to kill Lincoln. In source 2 it says “It is possible the Mary knew of the kidnapping but not the plan to kill Lincoln.” This means she might not have known the were planning to kill Lincoln so she could be innocent.
Today, police reports that teachers from Wilmette Junior High School sent to a hospital after a basketball game yesterday.
There are many factors that are involved in this experiment including emotional stress, physical pain and peer pressure. Although this experiment was successful in the fact that people actually did follow the orders till the end there is also a lot of emotional trauma that has effected the “teachers” years later. Jacob Plumfield, a experimenter who was obedient through the whole experiment quotes, “You thought you were really giving shocks… knowledge of how you acted, There’s no turning back” (Skinner 60). Plumfield implies that these emotional encounters have caused him to rethink a lot of things in his life such as how powerful something might be.
In 1984, after the trial of World War 2 criminal Adolph Eichmann, Stanley Milgram created an experiment where his starting hypothesis was to see if Germans had a character flaw which made them more obedient which correlated to the holocaust. He put an advertisement in the newspaper for volunteers for an educational experiment who would be paid on hour for $4.50. The experiment itself wasn’t real, but the participants didn’t know that it going in. The experiment was once they got into the “laboratory”, they picked from a hat and one would get “teacher” and the other “learner” but it is rigged so the participants will always get “teacher”. Jack William who is the experimenter takes the “learner” into a room to strap them into the shock machine while the “teacher” watches and at this time, the “teacher” is informed of the “learners” heart condition and Jack Williams pushes
The Wave, by Todd Strasser, illustrates how easily one can plummet into autocratic behaviors. In the book, Strasser depicts an experiment conducted by a history teacher. The experiment was conducted in order to enlighten the students on the Holocaust (Strasser 26). During the Holocaust, the German dictator, Adolf Hitler, was lured in by the power that an autocratic society provides. He and his group, the Nazi Party, captured and executed millions of Jews in order to benefit Germany with ethnic cleansing.
The two experiments were a tested at different time periods and for different purposes. For instance, the Milgram experiment was originally tested to study obedience to authority, in response to Adolf Eichmann trial, a Nazi war criminal, that stated he,” was just stating orders under the Reich.” The experiment proved to be that under authority rule, actions, even if morally wrong and unethical can be still taken forward with due to a strict authority presence.
The Milgram experiment was performed by the sociologist Stanley Milgram to discover the power of authority. In this experiment, Stanley was trying to demonstrate the willingness people have to follow orders from an authority figure. Even thought the results of this experiment were very surprising, I think that this kind of experiments would allows us to study and understand better the human’s nature. This experiment showed a side of human’s nature that was unknown by the scientistic community, and this is the reason why we need to perform more experiment like this one.
The third wave refers to a psychological experiment developed to establish the relay information regarding the Germans acceptance of the conduct of Nazis. The experiment was carried out among high school students in California by Ron Jones. On the other hand, the Sanford experiment was conducted by Philip Zimbardo’s to examine the psychological effects of prisoners and guards (McCarthy, 2012). The experiments are similar in various ways. First, the participants of the experiments were students drawn from different middle-class families in their respective countries. The participants of the Sanford experiment were brilliant and psychologically fit students from various middle-class families in United States and Canada (Zimbardo, 2007). The participants of the Palo Alto, CA experiments were students drawn from various families in the California. Secondly, the experimenters in both experiments are tutors in the participating learning institutions. Ron Jones was a history teacher at the high school
How Far the Weimar Constitution Can Be Described as Creating an Effective Democracy For the first time in the history of Germany, the state was a democratic republic. The constitution was something of a fragile experiment, a guinea pig. Theoretically speaking, the Weimar Constitution could be described as the most democratic constitution the world has ever laid eyes upon, in practice, things were not as clear. Germany was to be a “Federal State,” with each “Lander,” (state) retaining limited control over local affairs.
The Milgram experiment illustrates people 's reluctance to confront those who abuse power. By recruiting and deceiving people of all different backgrounds, he manipulated them into using punishment on people’s ability to learn. The Milgram experiment helps psychologists and sociologists explain the reasoning behind knowingly conflicting pain for a certain outcome. Milgram contributed path-breaking experiments towards the research between obedience to authority. He furthered knowledge in social networks and urban psychology.
Okay. Many of you may have heard of me. I am known as “Little Red Riding Hood.” My tale has become so famous and the retellings so extensive that I doubt you’d meet a child over the age of seven who hasn’t heard some version of it. For the rare few who might have missed it, here’s a quick rehash: I went to go visit my sickly grandmother, who lives in the woods, with a basket of goodies. I run into the “Big Bad Wolf” and manage to escape. Then the wolf runs ahead and does something to my poor grandmother—no one agrees on exactly what, the ideas range from ones safe to tell small children to grisly horrors that would give grown men goose bumps—and somehow ends up in her clothes pretending to be my grandmother.
Singapore 's former Prime Minster, Lee Kuan Yew once said: "Human beings, regrettable though it may be, are inherently vicious and have to be restrained" (Kwang, Fernandez, & Tan 1). One can infer from Kuan Yew’s statement that he 's subtly saying that individuals shouldn 't be in control of their choices, yet there ought to be somebody to settle on choices for them. An ideology such as this can stem from an authoritarian government. In this day and age, most nations have a tendency to have a democracy. However, it wasn 't generally that way. Throughout history, there were nations under authoritarian rule. In order to fully understand what an authoritarian regime is, one must know the meaning of it. An authoritarian government is "an oppressive regime that rules through strict, intrusive, and violent enforcement of laws. It can “take the form of a dictatorship, but may also manifest itself in totalitarian bureaucracies or oligarchies" (Ritter 576). An authoritarian regime exists when a leader or a small group of leaders owns all property and are the sole decision makers for the entire population. There are only two questions left to be asked. How are authoritarian regimes created and how do they even stay in power? Authoritarian governments ascend to power due to a postwar upheaval and the leader in the charge; they stay in power by employing a resource trap and having a one party system.
Autocracies, it is purported, produces an atmosphere of complacency and breeds corruption due to the absence of political competition. Furthermore, the ideals of democracy, such as individual freedoms and rights, are arguably universal ideals, therefore states (and in this case the US) have a moral duty to promote democracy.
Throughout history different types of instrumental regimes have been in tact so civilizations remained structured and cohesive. As humanity advanced, governments obligingly followed. Although there have been hiccups from the ancient times to modern day, one type of government, democracy, has proven to be the most effective and adaptive. As quoted by Winston Churchill, democracy is the best form of government that has existed. This is true because the heart of democracy is reliant, dependent, and thrives on the populaces desires; which gives them the ability for maintaining the right to choose, over time it adjusts and fixes itself to engulf the prominent troubling issues, and people have the right of electing the person they