How much power is too much power? As students we are expected to
listen and obey higher authority no matter the situation. If a student speaks
back to a teacher or is approached in a way that the teacher does not approve,
it is more likely for the student to receive some type of punishment. We are
trained to listen to adults because we have to respect them but is that really
what children are being taught? Or are these people in higher authority taking
advantage of their position of power? In class we talked about power,
domination, and discipline which I think are all good ways to have structure but
in a positive way. Weber described power as being a social relationship of
imposing ones’own will, how are we trained to do this? Whereas domination is
finding a specified group to obey a command of determinate content and lastly we
have discipline, which is a specifiable number of people who habitually obey a
command without thinking about it. How do we differentiate the concepts with the
actions? People who do have authority over others should not take that privilege
and use it negatively so people will“learn a lesson.” In this video I found that
Milgram’s experiment also demonstrates
Weber’s theory on how ordinary society, tends to listen to what they are
told even though it can have a negative outcome, if someone of higher authority
or knowledge tells them too. This experiment shows adults follow instruction to
shock another human being if they respond to a question with the wrong answer.
In regards to the actions that are being done what time of “power” is being
demonstrated if any. With this type of authority it would follow the description
of charismatic authority. Authority in which characteristics of a person make
people believe you know are well educated of what is being done in a “miracle
figure.” Having a job such as, someone who creates experiments can fall into
this category because they have those are being apart of the experiment believe
that what is being done is harmless, the right thing to do, or even just the way
they approach the experiment is buyable. Some parts of society tend to me
intimated by the title of a person and what they are capable because of a
certain job description.
listen and obey higher authority no matter the situation. If a student speaks
back to a teacher or is approached in a way that the teacher does not approve,
it is more likely for the student to receive some type of punishment. We are
trained to listen to adults because we have to respect them but is that really
what children are being taught? Or are these people in higher authority taking
advantage of their position of power? In class we talked about power,
domination, and discipline which I think are all good ways to have structure but
in a positive way. Weber described power as being a social relationship of
imposing ones’own will, how are we trained to do this? Whereas domination is
finding a specified group to obey a command of determinate content and lastly we
have discipline, which is a specifiable number of people who habitually obey a
command without thinking about it. How do we differentiate the concepts with the
actions? People who do have authority over others should not take that privilege
and use it negatively so people will“learn a lesson.” In this video I found that
Milgram’s experiment also demonstrates
Weber’s theory on how ordinary society, tends to listen to what they are
told even though it can have a negative outcome, if someone of higher authority
or knowledge tells them too. This experiment shows adults follow instruction to
shock another human being if they respond to a question with the wrong answer.
In regards to the actions that are being done what time of “power” is being
demonstrated if any. With this type of authority it would follow the description
of charismatic authority. Authority in which characteristics of a person make
people believe you know are well educated of what is being done in a “miracle
figure.” Having a job such as, someone who creates experiments can fall into
this category because they have those are being apart of the experiment believe
that what is being done is harmless, the right thing to do, or even just the way
they approach the experiment is buyable. Some parts of society tend to me
intimated by the title of a person and what they are capable because of a
certain job description.