Student Success  Statement
What is obedience? What does it mean to obedient, to obey?

Obedience: compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority.
"children were taught to show their parents obedience"
Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure"
Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which is behavior influenced by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the majority.
 Obedience can be seen as immoral, amoral and moral.