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Essay / The Power of Peer Pressure - 903
Society is a complex system that involves many factors for an individual's growth as a person. These factors can range from simplistic to complex; the education of a child in a particular neighborhood to a person determining a meticulous career. Both of these situations adhere to the ideology of human interaction and communication. Human interaction and communication can lead to events that place humans under peer pressure; This idea of peer pressure will play an important role for all humans and can certainly override a person's moral beliefs. To determine the strength of peer pressure on humans, many experiments have been conducted that placed humans in undesirable situations as well as historical events that apply to peer pressure. A man named Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, decided to test the power of peer pressure. pressure on humans in 1961. Three people participated in his experiment: the three were given the titles of experimenter, learner (victim), and teacher. The only real participant in the experiment was the teacher, the learner was an actor trained for the experiment; thus, the teacher felt like everyone was a selected participant. The teacher and learner were then placed in separate rooms where no viewing took place, but communication was still effective. The teacher received an electric shock to mimic what the learner would receive throughout the experience; The teacher then instructed the learner to answer a series of questions to determine whether the person would be shocked or not. For each incorrect answer, the learner received a shock (actually it wasn't a real shock, but the teacher felt like it was)...... middle of sheet ......the role of peer pressure in history would be slavery. Slavery is a general term that implies one group of people in bondage and service to another group of people. Slaves had no rights, were not considered people, and had no social or political rights; thus, the majority of people defined slavery as a necessity with no threat to civilization. But what about the individuals who weren’t in favor of it? Their individual beliefs were not considered relevant for some time due to peer pressure from the majority asserting that the slave system was just and correct. In story experiences or situations, peer pressure is an inevitable factor for all humans and must be handled with caution. extreme caution. Although society has common interests for and with people, it is very important to retain the beliefs of an individual so that that human can become a strong person..