Who Is Mcdonald's Conformity?
1. The McDonald's employee was following normative influence which produces conformity when a person fears negative social consequences of appearing deviant. The employee was a young high school girl who was good at school and was complying to the requests made from the police officer through the phone which was relayed from her manager because she did not want to suffer any social out casting. On the other hand the manager and her fiancé were following more of a informational influence which produces conformity when a person believes others are correct in their judgements, which in this case was officer Scott on the phone. Having the other two people listen to the officer on the phone they implied that he is always right and we should listen to him thus leading them to strip searching the employee and sexually abusing her. The manager could also be under the influence of normative conformity because she does not want to be seen as deviant and follows the officers orders since he is in a higher position of power.
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Private conformity is the change of beliefs that occurs when a person privately accepts the position taken from others. To conform on this you have to be well persuaded that others are usually correct. When the manager is on the phone with the officer she takes on the role of stripping her employee and brining her fiancé to watch over her later on. Having the manager to even strip search her was a persuasive mechanism used by the officer on the phone. Also for the employee she was accepting her role of being the bad person in the situation, but at the same time she complied because she was trying to prove her innocence. For the manager though she could have felt public conformity as well, where a superficial change in overt behaviour occurs. The manager could have pretended to agree with the officer even if she believed that strip searching the young woman was
Private conformity is the change of beliefs that occurs when a person privately accepts the position taken from others. To conform on this you have to be well persuaded that others are usually correct. When the manager is on the phone with the officer she takes on the role of stripping her employee and brining her fiancé to watch over her later on. Having the manager to even strip search her was a persuasive mechanism used by the officer on the phone. Also for the employee she was accepting her role of being the bad person in the situation, but at the same time she complied because she was trying to prove her innocence. For the manager though she could have felt public conformity as well, where a superficial change in overt behaviour occurs. The manager could have pretended to agree with the officer even if she believed that strip searching the young woman was