Summary Paper on the Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram

In Stanley Milgram's, The Perils of Obedience, Milgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment.
Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they were ordered to do so. He explains the details of this experiment by setting the scene. …