What is the agency theory within psychology?

Milgram (1974) proposed that our tendency to obey people in authority is a way of maintaining a stable society. in order to live in complex societies we need social rules. sticking to these rules means that at least some of the time we have to give up some of our free will. Milgram proposed that in order to accomplish this we have developed two social states: * In the Autonomous state we are free to act as we wish. * However in our Agentic state we surrender our free will and conscience in order to serve the interests of the wider group. referrence "angles on psychology - 3rd edition" by Emmanuel Chikaviro