MODULE WEEK NO.

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Santa Monica Institute of Tech.
Andrada Bldg. Poblacion, Iligan City
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Education Department
Good Manners and Right Conduct(GMRC)
Semester of A.Y. 2020-2021

Introduction

In our daily life, we know that obedience is a very essential habit one should abide to in
our homes, workplaces and in the communities in which we live. In simple terms, obedience is
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compliance with an order, request, law or submission to another authority.

Activity

 Write your answers in a different paper

 Don’t pass your modules only the answers
 Read the contents of the modules thoroughly
 Before asking questions regarding the modules, please understand the question first.
 When asking your instructors regarding the modules, be courteous.

Discussion

OBEDIENCE

Defining Obedience

According to dictionary.com, obedience means:

 the state or quality of being obedient.

 the act or practice of obeying; dutiful or submissive compliance:
Military service demands obedience from its members.
 a sphere of authority or jurisdiction, especially ecclesiastical.
Obedience is a form of social influence that involves performing an action under the orders of
an authority figure. It differs from compliance (which involves changing your behavior at the request of
another person) and conformity (which involves altering your behavior in order to go along with the rest
of the group).
Instead, obedience involves altering your behavior because a figure of authority has told you
to.

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Importance of Obedience

Obedience is a part of the foundation of society. Without obedience, naught would exist but chaos
and anarchy. Without stability, productivity and the well-being of the citizens become non-existent.
Because of this, one must question how obedient society can be without losing its individuality, for a
society with no individuality does not consist of people but of mindless drones, unthinkingly carrying out
orders for the hive’s queen. Experiments conducted by Asch, Milgram, and Zimbardo show human
individuality is often subverted by the blind obedience humans feel towards those in a position of power.
In order for human beings to maintain their individuality and a stable society, a balance between
obedience and insubordination must be found.

Obedience is detrimental when it can cause physical or mental anguish. If one is tasked with
causing such pain to another person, disobedience in the form of insubordination is the choice that
should be taken. If one follows the authority’s task and causes pain to another person, they have lost their
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individuality and ability to make choices on their own. Once one blindly follows a figure of authority’s
directive, that person may conform to the majority if the superior commands many people.

Let’s Read the tale of Peter Rabbit:

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were— Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-
tail, and Peter.
They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree.
"NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the
lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by
Mrs. McGregor."

"NOW run along, and don't get into mischief. I am going out."
THEN old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, to the baker's. She bought a loaf of brown bread
and five currant buns.
FLOPSY, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the
lane to gather blackberries;

BUT Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's
garden and squeezed under the gate!

FIRST he ate some lettuces and some French beans;

and then he ate some radishes;
AND then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for
some parsley.
BUT round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr.
McGregor!
MR. McGREGOR was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages,
but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out, "Stop
thief!"
PETER was most dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he
had forgotten the way back to the gate.
He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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AFTER losing them, he ran on four legs and went faster, so that I think he might have got away
altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry net, and got caught by the large buttons on
his jacket. It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new.

PETER gave himself up for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs
were overheard by some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great
excitement, and implored him to exert himself.

MR. McGREGOR came up with a sieve, which he intended to

pop upon the top of Peter; but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving
his jacket behind him.

AND rushed into the toolshed, and jumped into a can. It would
have been a beautiful thing to hide in, if it had not had so much water
in it.
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MR. McGREGOR was quite sure that Peter was somewhere in the toolshed, perhaps hidden
underneath a flower-pot. He began to turn them over carefully, looking under each.

Presently Peter sneezed— "Kertyschoo!" Mr. McGregor was after him in no time,

AND tried to put his foot upon Peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting three plants. The
window was too small for Mr. McGregor, and he was tired of running after Peter. He went back to his
work.

PETER sat down to rest; he was out of breath and trembling with fright, and he had not the least
idea which way to go. Also he was very damp with sitting in that can.

After a time he began to wander about, going lippity— lippity—not very fast, and looking all
around.

HE found a door in a wall; but it was locked, and there was no room for a fat little rabbit to squeeze
underneath.

An old mouse was running in and out over the stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family
in the wood. Peter asked her the way to the gate, but she had such a large pea in her mouth that she could
not answer. She only shook her head at him. Peter began to cry.

THEN he tried to find his way straight across the garden, but he became more and
more puzzled. Presently, he came to a pond where Mr. McGregor filled his water-
cans. A white cat was staring at some gold-fish; she sat very, very still, but now and
then the tip of her tail twitched as if it were alive. Peter thought it best to go away
without speaking to her; he had heard about cats from his cousin, little Benjamin
Bunny.

HE went back towards the tool-shed, but suddenly, quite close to him, he heard
the noise of a hoe—scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch. Peter scuttered underneath the bushes. But
presently, as nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow, and peeped over. The
first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions. His back was turned towards Peter, and beyond him
was the gate!

PETER got down very quietly off the wheelbarrow, and started running as fast as he could go,
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along a straight walk behind some black-currant bushes.

Mr. McGregor caught sight of him at the corner, but Peter did not care. He slipped underneath the
gate, and was safe at last in the wood outside the garden.

MR. McGREGOR hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a
scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.

PETER never stopped running or looked behind him till he got

home to the big fir-tree.

He was so tired that he flopped down upon the nice soft sand on the
floor of the rabbit-hole, and shut his eyes. His mother was busy cooking;
she wondered what he had done with his clothes. It was the second little
jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in a fortnight!
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I AM sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening.

His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter!

"One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time."

BUT Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries, for
supper.

END

The Moral of Peter Rabbit

5. Dream big. Peter Rabbit was a dreamer who jumped way out of his comfort zone when he ventured
into Mr. McGregor’s garden. Not every adventure ends in near-tragedy as Peter’s did, and life is more
interesting when we test the boundaries of our worlds.

4. Eat your veggies. What was the first thing Peter did in Mr. McGregor’s garden? Why, he ate his
veggies, of course! Peter ate so many lettuces, beans and radishes that he had to follow his meal with a
bit of parsley to calm his over-full stomach. Any parent who has struggled with a child who won’t eat
anything green will appreciate Peter’s choice of snacks.

3. Never give up. There came a point in Peter’s adventure when things started to look dire. He was
caught in a fence, and Mr. McGregor was hot on his heels. Peter was tired and confused, close to giving
up. But some friendly sparrows begged him to keep trying. Their chirps were the motivation Peter
needed to free himself. That’s a great lesson from the humblest of birds.
2. Chamomile tea for what ails you. When Peter finally escaped Mr. McGregor’s garden and got
home, he was so exhausted he couldn’t tell his mother what had happened –– even if he had wanted to
confess!. Her mother’s intuition probably told her that her boy had been up to no good, but she treated
him with kindness, sending him to bed with some chamomile tea to calm him down. Anyone who has had
a cup of chamomile on an agitated day knows her home remedy was spot-on.
And, of course, the most important lesson of The Tale of Peter Rabbit:

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1. Listen to your mother. It’s on page one of Peter Rabbit that Peter’s mother tells him not to go into
Mr. McGregor’s garden. If Peter had listened, there wouldn’t be a story –– but it was still sound advice.
Mothers almost always seem to know what’s best, and Mrs. Rabbit was no exception. We hope all the
little Peters out there (and the Flopsys, Mopsys and Cotton-tails, too) will remember to listen to their
mothers.

From: https://hamiltoncs.org/lit220/uncategorized/the-moral-of-peter-rabbit/

The number 1 lesson of the story is to listen to your parents (Mother)and listening to your parents
rule in the family. It is what we call obedience. In society, family is the smallest unit and it is the
foundation of social order.

Social Order
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Core definition
Social order refers to the ways in which societies remain sufficiently stable to enable co-ordinated
productive and cultural activity.

Explanatory context
Social order requires organization to enable co-ordinated and co-operative activity within social
structures and institutions. Social order means that thare are social practices that ensure the maintainance
and enforcement of appropriate ways of behaving.
There are diverse theories about social order. For example, Marx argued that relations of
production were the principle mechanism of social order. Durkheim argued that social order came from
shared social norms.

After reading the discussion I hope you’ll learn the value of the rules in “ACTIVITY”.

Exercise
 How important is obedience?

 In the “Peter Rabbit” story, how did Peter learn the importance of obedience? Cite the lines and
explain.
 Is there a time you have done same mistake as Peter did? What happened and what are the
consequences of your actions?

Assessment

Go to my website https://ceasarmunds.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/alamat-ng-gubat-by-bob-
ong/

Enter the password : GMRC

Read the story and answer the following questions:

 Does the story depicts social order? Explain 100 words

 Does the story depicts obedience? Explain 100 words
 Could the story be related to our society, why? Explain 200 words

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Reflection
Reflect on what you have learned after taking up this lesson by completing the chart below
I thought…

I learned that…
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Resources and Additional Resources

 Lee Harvey, Social order(2020), Retrieved from:
https://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/socialorder.htm
 Nicholas P. Leveillee, The Role of Obedience in Society(2011, VOL. 3 NO. 05), Retrieved from:
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/524/the-role-of-obedience-in-society
 Linnea Crowther, Lessons Beatrix Potter Taught Me(2017, Dec. 22), Retrieved from:
https://www.legacy.com/news/lessons-beatrix-potter-taught-me/