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King's claim of lovingly breaking the law did not mean that he joyously accepted his punishment of jail time for exercising his rights in the segregated south: King may have embraced his punishment because of his hopes for change, not out of some sort of self-abnegating humility. The civil rights movement was about self-assertion of one's rights. The love in his heart came from his hope for the possibility of change. This did not mean, just like contemporary groups, that he was not outraged by his jailing and the violent actions of the police against civil rights demonstrators.
But James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski seem to have another agenda: their distaste for the causes of Earth First and Act Up! are evident. It is easy to defend the disruption of the civil rights movement when it has been consigned to history. Moreover, there is the issue of comparing applies to oranges: invalidating an entire movement like Deep Ecology because it is not as collectively eloquent as a single, moral speaker also seems unfair: the authors are able to criticize environmentalism by selecting the most radical voices of the movement and selecting the most eloquent voice of the civil rights movement. Earth First and the Deep Ecology movement are also reproached because of the price their demonstrations have incurred on the part...
The civil rights demonstrators were called 'troublemakers' for 'forcing' the police to keep the peace and the eviction of the British from India came at a tremendous financial cost.
The authors fear that students will not leave the classroom with a fully integrated knowledge of Locke and Rousseau and only a half-baked notion about personal expression and its links to civil disobedience. However, Locke and Rousseau opposed the received knowledge of their era and demanded that their readers use their own experiences in a free society to ascertain new truths. Of course, students may have less fully-articulated ideas than adults -- but that can be a boon as well as a bane to society, as young people may be more motivated to challenge accepted norms regarding race, class and gender. Some expressions of civil disobedience cited by teachers may be particular to adolescent life, like debates about school uniforms. Others, such as Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail can inspire healthy debate over modern controversies, not just the historical circumstances that spawned them. These men may have submitted to their unjust punishments, but did so to change society, not out of meekness.
Milgram Obedience, Morality and the Scientific Process in Milgram During the period between 1963 and 1974, social psychologist, professor and theorist Stanley Milgram published a landmark series of findings regarding the nature of morality, authority and obedience. Compelled by the recently revealed atrocities of the Holocaust, Milgram was driven to better understand the kinds of institutional forces that could make ostensibly ordinary men and women commit acts of such heinous proportions as
Conformity and Obedience BEYOND CONSCIOUS AWARENESS Influences of Conformity and Obedience The Concepts of Conformity and Obedience Compared Obedience is a form of social influence in which a person of authority makes a direct command to someone to perform something (McLeod, 2007). It involves changing one's behavior according to the commands of authority (Brehm, Kassin & Fein, 1999 as qtd in Southerly, 2012). Conformity is another form of social influence brought about by social
Meanwhile on the subject of obedience, an article in American Psychologist (written by the former research assistant to Milgram at Yale University) poses the following question: if Milgram's experiments / research were conducted today, in 2009, "would people still obey… " (Elms, 2009, p. 34). The answer given in most cases by Elms is that "…a current measure of obedience to destructive authority would find substantially less obedience than
Stanley Milgram on Obedience Legitimacy and Proximity: Social Influences that Determines and Generates Obedience in Stanley Milgram's Obedience Study (Behavioral Study of Obedience, 1963) For many years, psychology, as one of the main branches of social science, has tried to discern and understand human behavior and its relation to the society through empirical observation and experimentation. Social scientists, under the philosophy, methods, and principles of psychology, tried to understand human mind, particularly
Women With Authority in a Patriarchal World In the contemporary world, the cultural and literary spheres acknowledge female interests and activities. Females have overtly exerted their rights by demanding their due status in society, thereby being accepted as important societal members. But the scenario was vastly different about a hundred years ago. Females belonged at home, with the general society believing that raising children and taking care of domestic affairs sufficed
Ross (1988) notes the development of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century and indicates that it was essentially a masculine phenomenon: Romantic poetizing is not just what women cannot do because they are not expected to; it is also what some men do in order to reconfirm their capacity to influence the world in ways socio-historically determined as masculine. The categories of gender, both in their lives and in their