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Symbols, Signs, and Obedience

How we react to what isn't spoken

What roles do symbols play?

Why do we obey symbols?

Images

Why don't we obey some symbols?

  • Self Preservation
  • Ignorance
  • Personal gain
  • Conformity
  • Obedience

Conformity

  • They tell us what we can and cannot do
  • They elicit feelings
  • They express emotion
  • Images become symbols by the meaning we associate them with
  • Personal Gain
  • Misconception
  • Ability to ignore
  • Ignorance
  • Conformity

What are Symbols?

  • According to Aronson conformity is a change in a person's behavior as a result of real or imagined pressure from another person or a group of people
  • We obey because others do
  • We disobey because others do
  • We conform to the non-conformists
  • Asch's conformity study
  • Symbols are objects or images that represent something else
  • They are created mostly by society
  • They are a type of communication

Happiness

Oppression

Love

Findings

Traffic

  • When the outcome has an effect on us we choose to obey
  • When we feel we have control it is easier to disobey

My Test

Obedience

  • I interviewed five people to see how they act towards authority of traffic signs that have real ramifications.
  • We follow the instruction of authority
  • We don't need to see proof of authority
  • We don't want to upset the "status quo"
  • Millgram's obedience study
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