Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She walks in, sunglasses on, carrying a large bottle of water. She's faintly green and speaks quietly...


Ok, gang. The unit for this week is obedience. we're going to hammer out the why's and how's of obedience to authority, and how that behavior relates to trust and influence...and respect. *Looks at O'Neill and Harkness*

Why do you obey? Some of you obey better than others. Why do you defer your personal power? Is it to gain something? If so, that is, as Elizabeth explained so well week before last, hegemony. *Writes HEGEMONY on the board* This is when you do something that decreases your personal power in order to gain something, in either the short or long run.

Ok, so obedience to authority. Everybody stand up and push the desks out of the way. Quietly please.

*Watches as they do it (or at least some of them*

Good. Now question yourself...why did you just do what I told you? Why were you obedient? Is it because I'm the teacher? Is it because I'm older? Is it because you've been conditioned...*writes CONDITIONED on the board* to comply with a simple request?

You cna put the desks back if you want to sit down. I'd like to get a discussion going regarding your perceptions of obedience. Ok, go.

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[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

(([pets poor CJ]))

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

(([CJ needs it...as does her mun, who overslept and *just* got to her job on time thanks to talking to Shane mun and Beka mun until the wee hours]))

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory, who is wearing an overlarge pair of sunglasses herself, murmurs, "I think we obeyed you because you control our grades."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

So what are you saying Rory? That you fear me? Wish to please me? Want to save your own skin? What?

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"All of the above?" she ventures. "We obey you because we wish to please you - or, moreover, want to make sure we stay in your good graces. Although, you're very nice and you don't seem to wish us any harm, so I'd probably follow your orders anyway."

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

::upon hearing the topic for the week, Chiana sinks down into her chair. obedience is *so* not her favorite subject::

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

Sydney walks in and takes a seat, obdience is definitely not her favorite subject, it was something that she got in trouble with a lot outside of school.

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

::smiles at Sydney and whispers:: You look like you're enjoying this just as much as I am.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

"Oh yeah, obedience is my strong suit." Sydney laughs.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack had obediently (hah!) pushed his desk out of the way when so instructed. When CJ says that they can put the desks back if they want to, Jack considers, then decides he'd rather be sitting down, so brings his back.

"We obey authority to either get a reward or avoid punishment. When you said to clear the room of desks, I was kind of hoping I'd end up pressed up against someone again, like last week. Reward.

"When the perceived reward isn't enough incentive, or the perceived punishment isn't enough deterent, then there is no obediance."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Very astute, Chip. Positive and negative reinforcement...tell me more. Run with it.

[absolutesnark]

Piper wanders into class thinking of something to add to the discussion. "I agree with Rory. You control our grades. Most of us want to do well in this class, so we listen to you."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Is that all there is to it, Piper? Really?

[kimberly-shaw.livejournal.com]

*joins the conversation and has something insightful to say*

[/cheat]

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*Parker looks vaguely disturbed by this, since her experience with authority is problematic*

We are conditioned to obey and comply with the social fabric because we don't know what the alternative is. And we fear the unknown. We can guess that *you'll* be reasonable, but we know from experience that we can't always count on that in other situations.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Brillinat, Miss Parker...Can you give me a concrete example?

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[The following is left, SEALED, in CJ's faculty mailbox sometime in the early afternoon.]



((And yes, I AM writing love notes from one fictional character to another instead of writing a response paper...))

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

((ooc:I'm going to say she grabbed this right before she walked in to the faculty lounge where she is talking to Spider and being ignored by Adam and Ten who are flirting talking.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna, like Rory and possibly a few others, came to class wearing very dark, very big sunglasses. She did not get up and move her desk, but only because she'd dozed off. The noise of the desks scrapping across the floor startled her. She stood up beside her desk, bewildered, and listened to the rest of CJ opener.

As the others push their desks back in place, D thankfully collapsed back into her chair. She put her hands to her cheeks, fingers sliding under the glasses, and gave her face a vigorous rub before trying to understand or answer anything.

A few minutes later, she raises her hand. "Isn't the key to getting through school doing what your professors tell you that they want done? Returning to them the information they gave you in a way in which they find acceptable? The rewards of which are you finishing and leaving school with marks that will allow you to trade one place of education for another that operates in the same manner?" Is what she would have asked on another day.

Today, she simply says, "If you obey, you get rewarded and if not, you don't. Isn't that what most schools boil down to in the end, Miss?"

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie quietly listens to the various conversations around her.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

*Lily obeys - yes, because she has been conditioned. It is the path of least resistance*

[not-an-ex-demon.livejournal.com]

Anya comes in, sits, and listens.

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

*shrugs*
Why wouldn't we move the desks? It was easy, you asked us, and it wasn't going to hurt anything. No reason not to move them. And since you're the teacher and control the grades, we had every reason TO move them.

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

This is my fault isn't it? *Jack sighs and mutters something that sounds vaugely like bohica while moving his desk and then moving it back*

I can't speak for anyone but myself but I personally obey because it's what I was taught. Military goes way back in my family and you learn early on what is expected of you. I personally seem to get away with a bit more than most but that's only because I know when not to jack around.

I obey well and usually follow orders. If I disobey an order it's either because;
A) Following the order will bring direct avoidable harm to someone under my command or;
B) I don't realize I'm doing it until removing my boot from my throat brings the threat of internal damage.

The reason I listen to you? Because I respect you and because, frankly, you scare the living crap out of me Ma'amProfessor. Nobody has scared me as bad as you since my--Uncle.




[OOC: Jack knows nothing about CJ and Ten, Mun just had to do the BOHICA because it fit too perfect.]

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

So your obedience is dictated by a strong personal code of morals, is that what you're saying?

*Looks at him curiously*

Why in the world would I scare the crap outof you Jack? I'm a pussycat.