Discursive approach to obedience

Discursive approach to obedience

1. Strengths

   • Gibson questions the popular understanding of Milgrims experiment as 'destructive obedience'
     • destructive obedience - succumbing to authority and contextual pressures that led the individual to act in ways counter to their normal behaviour and beliefs pg 154 bk2
       • Milgrim assumes the power is with the authority figure

2. Weaknesses

3. Rhetorical analysis

   • Strengths
   • Weaknesses
   • Definition - examining the way speakers use language to persuade the listener to consider a topic from a different perspective

4. Agency - structure

5. Power relations

6. Milgrims obedience experiment

   • Assumptions made
     • Power with the authority figure
     • Structure is the guiding force, lack of agency
     • Measuring destructive obedience