Stanley Milgram 2 Obedience is one of the most basic tenants of social life. Society itself is predicted upon its existence.
All political purpose is linked to individual action through way of obedience.
While having the potential for educative purpose and promoting acts of charity, it can also cause the most ethical and moralistic to abandon their core values and seemingly close their eyes while following an unjustified authority. Starting in the early 60s , Stanley Milgram began to investigate this destructive form of obedience. Milgram devised a concrete laboratory procedure for experimental control in this abstract process. The problem in designing this study was selecting the best conditions that highlight the process of obedience from a sociopsychological standpoint. A stimulated shock generator is used, with 30 clearly marked voltage levels that range from 15 to 450 volts.