...following research personal derives from Solomon Asch's conformity study. The study reflects how human subjects conform to the majority social influence of their peers. The study design was in a controlled laboratory experiment. The following proposal is to determine if subjects will decrease or increase the level of conformity outside a controlled environment. Psychology in Action Part V There are benefits of a controlled laboratory experiment which researches control the variables such as Asch's Opinions and Social Pressures study. The study does have further questions and follow-up studies to determine the magnitude of conformity as a social phenomenon. The social phenomenon of group conformity in a controlled environment has provided further issues to examine. Even though conformity may not increase outside a controlled environment, subjects may conform more outside a controlled environment because subjects conform easily inside a controlled environment. Research Proposal To: From: Date: Subject: Research proposal Research Question: Will subjects be more willing to conformity outside a controlled environment? Thesis: Even though conformity may not increase outside of a controlled environment, subjects may conform more outside a controlled environment because subjects conform easily inside a controlled environment. Proposed Research Topic: Will subjects be more willing to conformity outside a controlled environment? Purposes Asch...
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...‘THE CATCHER IN THE RYE’ AND ‘IGBY GOES DOWN’ – NON-CONFORMITY Both J.D Salinger’s 1951 Bildungsroman novel The Catcher in the Rye and Burr Steer’s film Igby Goes Down, demonstrate that regardless of context, the youth will choose not to conform to socially held values. We can see that this is the manifestation of the vulnerability and hesitation experienced as adolescents like us grow up. Ultimately both these texts explore the search for identity and individualism as a cause for non-conformity. The Catcher in the Rye was written during a post war era and a time of drastic social change. However, many of its conservative values remained and most importantly, the notion of youth conformity was held in high regard. On the other hand, Igby Goes Down is set in the 1980s -1990’s American era, a time of expanding multi national corporations, materialism and commercialism. Salinger and Steers utilise the characterisation of their young, sardonic and rebellious protagonists, Holden and Igby to epitomise non-conformity. The composers allude to the recurring theme of isolation and alienation in both texts. As a result of their non-conformity, the protagonists experience rejection and depression as they search for their selfhood. Similarly, the national ethos of the American Dream is explored as a mere fallacy, and both composers portray this through their protagonist’s wealthy backgrounds and opulent upbringings and yet money doesn’t bring them happiness. Salinger, through literary...
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...According to Leon Mann, conformity means "yielding to group pressures". Everyone is a member of one group oranother and everyone expects members of these groups to behave in certain ways. If you are a member of an identifiable group you are expected to behave appropriately to it. If you don"t confirm and behave appropriately you are likely to be rejected by the group. Like stereotypes, conforming and expecting others to conform maintains cognitive balance. There are several kinds of conformity. Many studies of conformity took place in the 1950"s which led Kelman to distinguish between compliance, internalisation and identification. Compliance is the type of conformity where the subject goes along with the group view, but privately disagrees with it. Internalisation is where the subject comes to accept, and eventually believes in the group view. Identification is where the subject accepts and believes the group view, because he or she wants to become associated with the group. Leon Mann identifies normative conformity which occurs when direct group pressure forces the individual to yield under the threat of rejection or the promise of reward. This can occur only if someone wants to be a member of the group or the groups attitudes or behaviour are important to the individual in some way. Apart from normative conformity there is informational conformity which occurs where the situation is vague or ambiguous and because the person is uncertain he or...
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...The Power of Conformity Conformity refers to an individual’s behavior that is performed because of group pressure, even though that pressure might not involve a direct request. Many people want to think that they are conformist enough so that they are not looked upon as strange to others and nonconformist enough to demonstrate that they are capable of thinking by themselves. For many years, psychologists have been interested in human conformity. Usually when people are in groups, they behave according to how those in the group behave. That indicates that conformity can affect a person’s behavior and make a person do things that may be against their ethics, attitudes, and morals. The study of conformity was first studied in the 1950s by Solomon Asch. His experiments were very important to the study of conformity. Asch wanted to find out how conformity could influence behavior. He did not want to focus on the general concepts like ethics, morals, attitudes, and belief systems. Instead, he focused on a more obvious concept which was perceptional conformity. Since he performed the experiment on a simple task, he was able to study conformity in a controlled environment. Asch wanted to apply group pressure to the experiment so he could manipulate a person’s behavior. For the experiment, he made three pairs of cards with three different lengths of vertical lines on one side. On the other side, there was a single line that was the same length ... Conformity and Obedience in Society...
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...Outline and evaluate two explanations of conformity. Normative social influence is a type of conformity compliance, where people behave in a way in which the majority are. This is where a large majority of people are able to indirectly control other people by making it difficult to oppose their views or opinions, thus making the minority feel pressured into complying. Although it may not change the minority’s opinions, some still conform to avoid social judgement and rejection of a large group. Asch’s study “Research into Majority Influence” (1996) clearly showed that 36.8% of the responses in 12 critical trials were incorrect due to the participants conforming under the pressure of 5 other confederates. This showed that humans have a tendency to fall under social pressure and conform to beliefs (their public beliefs, not their private) that they themselves do not believe. Informational social influence is similar to normative although the participants in Asch’s study were found to change their public and private beliefs, an example of internalisation. Informational social influence is most likely seen when the situation is unclear to the participant, where the situation is of great importance that occurs quickly so rapid decision making is needed and where the participant is to believe an expert’s opinion – where humans are more likely to believe someone that knows what to do or say. Wittenbrink and Henly’s (1996) found that when participants were exposed to negativity toward...
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...Being persuaded by anyone is considerate obeying and closes concepts of the difference in fundamental. This persuasion between them is not on demand while obedience does. The results of the process are considered a social control; obedience is subtle of control than persuasion. We are mostly likely prone to conformity and obedience but there is a difference between the groups depending on the person’s values or culture roles. Conformation is a group that can bring a reward such as support or self-esteem as well as security while the other brings the total opposite. Disobeying can lead to consequences examples would be not winning no rewards. Many things can damage views cognitive when obedience and confirmation goes against the systems. The video Asch’s on You Tube shows people to conform even when they are truly not in the right. The study’s shows how people function in a group setting and how different mechanisms will try to avoid the negative consequences or their beliefs and being biases by their attitudes of what is really right. The studies shows different situations but neither group did conform; it did reflect on people’s traits and how we as people are totally different. As for how I feel about the situation I am against the order of punishing someone. I do question a person authority and they can be wrong in a lot of studies no matter how many they do. I do believe in a person culture and how it may influence a person to be obedient and how they may view the experiment...
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...when the girls and their brothers first arrive at the boarding school. Soon "They separate the boys and girls so the children would "become 'masculine' and 'feminine'" (Bem 598). Knowing no better, they act like wild rambunctious animals they are excited for their new lives in the foreign setting. Little do they know they will soon be stripped of their past identities, including their names and culture, because it is all utterly wrong within civilized society. Claudette states, "[s]he slapped on a nametag saying: HELLO MY NAME IS ____! 'Jeanette it is "' (Russell 239). Russell shows how all that the girls know is not proper in modern society. Sister Maria and Sister Josephine the nuns in charge of the girls represent religious and modern conformity in the story as well as the white steeple of St Lucy's. The second stage of the program is filled with depression and rebellion from the girls in their preteen transformation stage. The girls, Claudette states, "[m]ark [their] territory but to their dismay everyday their smell is eradicated" (Russell 270). The girls are still in a shell-shocked. state, missing their families and old life, knowing that if they return home they shall be happy, but their parents will be utterly disappointed in them. The girls fulfill their past desires by daydreaming of food and their families. The nuns soon begin to conform the girls in this case meaning an "explanatory principle that appears in commonsense theories of both intentional and natural phenomena"...
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...through his writing. One of the main themes in his piece is the idea of conformity. There are so many situations that people conform in, some of which include; trying to fit in, not knowing what is the right thing to do, and often time people conform due to fear. Fear is something that can cause you to make both good and bad decisions. In The Crucible, fear is one of the main reasons for conformity, there are many reasons for why this happens and all of those are explained in the play. While depending on the situation while conform, or choose not to conform, based on the conditions they are in. In some situations we will often accuse others of actions they did not do in order...
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...several social psychological concepts. The one concept that stood out to me the most during this time was our chapters and discussions about conformity. Conformity is when a person relents their own beliefs or actions to satisfy those surrounding them. In society, human beings feel forced to change their opinions and judgements in order to fit in and not be an outsider. This type of behavior can be seen in numerous environments from one’s own house hold to their everyday social life with friends. I recently started a show called Thirteen Reasons Why, which shows how conformity can end up ending a person’s life. Thirteen Reasons Why was the most captivating, brutally authentic show I have seen in a while. Within the shows context there was no alleviating, it was straightforward, unaltered and honest. It showed how student, especially high school students, societies struggle with their experiences during their time in and out of school. This show is surrounded by two High School students, Clay Jensen and Hannah Baker who inevitably committed suicide. However, before she died she recorded 13 tapes, connecting her death to thirteen different students that attend the same school. Hannah is certain to make sure that the thirteenth people know that she left behind an ally who plans to release the tapes if they do not follow as...
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...Someone once said, “Conformity means doing what everyone else is doing, regardless of what is right. Morality means doing what is right, regardless of what everyone else is doing” (Unknown). Individuals are lead to believe that when an unpredictable situation may arise, they will stick to their morals and not be influenced by the people within society. Within a society, many individuals become too afraid to stick to their own morals and therefore result in following what everyone else does. Throughout Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy, Huck Finn, begins his adventure, with a slave named Jim, leaving a place where many people around have the intentions to “civilize” him. On his journey, Huck is faced with a...
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...As in kids should conform to their parents not just because they are their parents, but because they are their provider and elder. Some kids conform to peer pressure to do something they shouldn’t be doing just to fit into the group norm. This is call normative conformity and this is when a person does what everyone else is doing or tries their best to fit in to the group in order to be social accepted. This is mostly the case of when a family moves into a new neighborhood and tries adapt to their surrounding area's every day's life. In some cases some adults conforms to the rules and regulations of there job in order to keep their job and continue to be the provider of their family. People in general conforms to society in which people with kids send their children to school because society says they will never become anyone without an education of any kind. By people going to work everyday conforms to society because without a job you don't have any money or incomes coming in the house so at that you...
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...writing of any lack of conformity of the goods within 15 days from the date when the Buyer discovers or ought to have discovered the lack of conformity. In any case the Buyer shall have no remedy for lack of conformity if he fails to notify the Seller thereof within 12 months from the date of the goods at agreed destination. Dịch: Người mua sẽ kiểm tra hàng hóa ngay khi hàng đến cảng đến và thông báo bằng văn bản cho người Bán biết về bất cứ sự thiếu phù hợp nào của hàng hóa trong thời hạn 15 ngày từ ngày Người Mua phát hiện ra hoặc phải phát hiện ra sự thiếu phù hợp này. Trong mọi trường hợp Người Mua sẽ không có được sự khắc phục cho sự thiếu phù hợp của hàng hóa nếu không thông báo cho Người Bán biết về vấn đề này trong thời gian 12 tháng kể từ ngày hàng hóa ở cảng đến đã được thỏa thuận. 2. Goods will be deemed to conform to the Contract despite minor discepancies which are usual in the particular trade or through course of dealing between the parties but the Buyer will be entitled to an abatement of the price usual in the trade or through course of dealing for such discrepancies. Dịch: Hàng hóa được cho rằng là phù hợp với hợp đồng bất kể những sự thiếu nhất quán nhỏ thường xảy ra trong mua bán hoặc qua quá trình thỏa thuận giữa các bên, nhưng Người mua có quyền hạ giá so với mức giá thông thường trong trao đổi hoặc qua quá trình thỏa thuận giữa các bên cho những sự thiếu nhất quán này. 3. The Seller shall be liable for any lack of conformity in Goods which exists...
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...Name:______________________________________ Date:______________________ Activity 6.1: Exploring Your Own Conformity Instructions: Consider the various situations in which you conform. Identify four personal examples of your own conformity and answer the following questions for each one: A. Briefly describe (in a sentence or two) the situation in which you conform. B. Is your motive for this conformity informational or normative social influence? Briefly justify your answer. C. Are any situational influences (for example, ambiguity, group size, culture) or conformity present in this example? Explain your answer. D. Do you consider this example to be a positive or a negative example of conformity? In other words, is this conformity beneficial to you or not? Example 1: a. I took on a new role at my job over the summer, high rise window cleaner. The training period was brief, 4 days. b. I had to conform to the way I was seeing other people work and do things in the chair (bosuns chair). c. I think ambiguity might have been present. Where I was ambiguous on who to tie off my rope or something similar, but thought it best to just go with what the rest of the group was doing. d. It was positive. I have a suspicious that most informational conformity tends to be beneficial and positive. Example 2: a. In middle school I demanded my mom buy me a Starter jacket. Starter jackets were all the rage back in the early nineties, they were cheap polyester...
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...“Lead or Follow” Should I conform? Should I rebel? This has and always will be, a constant battle struggled individually, or as a society. A certain amount of conformity needs to exist in life in order to avoid disorder. This is the reason we have laws. Take those laws, rules, control, or even expectations, to an extreme, and some form of rebellion is probable. Struggle with these opposites, and you have a catalyst for war, or perhaps, being fired from a job. Literature represents life, and this theme can be found at the root of many literary works. “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, reflects blind conformity by the villagers with a hint of rebellion. Every June 27th the lottery takes place; the prize for winning is death. The villagers believe sacrificing one of their own will ensure a good harvest. The villagers are so blasé about the lottery it is said “the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner” (339/1). We get our first sense of possible rebellion when Mr. Adams says, “over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the lottery” (342/31) Mrs. Adams adds, some villages have already given it up. Old Man Warner’s retort is, “Pack of crazy fools…Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. First thing you know, we’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns,” (342/32) summing up the villagers belief in the continued need of this tradition....
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...Social control is defined as the means and processes used by a society to ensure conformity to the group norms. This is very straightforward. How does a particular group keep one acting or be in unison with that group. The first group that I deal with is my work environment. At work I have a group of coworkers; we are part of a department within the company. How does this group keep me in conformity with what that group defines as normal? Well at my job just like any job I have responsibilities and duties that I have to follow and complete. I know that I have to follow this and complete my duties otherwise I am not conforming. To work is the normal thing to do at my work. My boss could take action such as a write up or a warning. These would be formal sanctions. Also, even if my supervisor did not give me any formal sanctions, my coworkers could start to treat me different if I stopped pulling my weight and not complete my share of work. I am part of a group in a department that serves a purpose for the whole. If I would go on a lot of breaks and take a longer lunch then I risk my coworkers’ stop talking to me. They would treat me different and make me feel as if I am no longer part of the group. I would not be a conformist now but classified as an innovator. This is because I do accept the goals the department is given. I feel that the department is responsible to carry out tasks and responsibilities for the whole. However, I am not participating. Meaning that I reject the means...
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