Essay: Conformity and Obedience July 7th 2010 Conformity is like a virus that you are bound to catch‚ and there is only one real cure. People conform to society because society has strength and power over us. People delude themselves into believing that majority is society. If someone’s views go against society then society will pounce upon them like a hungry lion to eat them alive. Rather than going against it‚ people follow along even if it isn’t always right. People must do what is right‚ but
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Conformity is all around us in this world. It is not something we are happy with‚ since it gives us the pressure and limits our freedom. Conformity can be sometimes useful and sometimes frustrated. Conformity is related to authority. Authority means legitimate power. There are many legitimate authorities in our daily life from our parents to teachers or politicians‚ who are in a higher position than we are at. We just follow what they tell us to do without questioning why we have to follow.
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INFLUENCES OF CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Influences of Conformity and Obedience Adrienne Alexander PSYCH 555 Dr. Jay Greiner Applications of Social Psychology • Make connections between social psychology and other disciplines. Social psychology is closely related to three other disciplines: personality psychology‚ organizational psychology‚ and sociology (social work is sometimes confused with social psychology‚ but it
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Conformity and Group Influence & Persuasion and Culture Define: Conformity is the act/need of fitting in with a group and many factors are involved when an individual’s choose to conform to the group. A culture has certain beliefs‚ values‚ and behaviors that are acceptable for that certain culture and persuasion intersects that by looking at an individual’s culture and apply those beliefs‚ values‚ and behaviors in his/her argument to more effectively persuaded the audience. Develop: When
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The Influence of conformity on society through religionmore by John Chaaya 2‚137 Download (.doc) The Influence of conformity on society in religion Religion has influenced societies on an epic scale for millennia. Even the mostprimitive people on the planet created gods to worship and use their teachings toform the basis of their society going back as far as the Paleolithic period wheremother earth was worshiped as a goddess. Through time people have stayedtrue to a belief or a religion
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to fit into the social norms of society. Social roles and social norms are the root in which much of social influence takes place. Social influence is the act by which an individual’s emotions‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors are altered when interacting with another individual or a group who are perceived to be similar or desirable. Social influence dictates many areas of our lives and various greatly from one culture to another. Social influence has three main components: conformity‚ compliance‚ and
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psychological research and discuss whether humans do obey and conform to others in the social group. “Conformity is a tendency to align your beliefs‚ attitudes and behaviours to others around you”. Conforming to social norms is a very common thing‚ whether it’s subconscious or conscious. There are a number of different reasons as to why someone would conform‚ whether it’s to fit into society more‚ to fit more into a group and gain a sense of belonging and identification or maybe it’s happening completely
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Contrasting among Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance- all are human behaviors. Let’s look at the following incidents- 1. The student followed his teacher’s orders. 2. The parents bought a crib for their new born baby. 3. The factory implemented all the safety measures (for its workers) set by the Government. In the first example above‚ we see the student doing as he was told by his teacher. That means he obeyed the teacher‚ which is obedience. In the
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Conformity experiments demonstrate a person’s behavior based on the group’s decision regardless whether the individual knows it’s wrong. The factors the contribute to a personal judgment that leads to conformity are peer pressure and the social influence to fit in ("Module 11.4: Conformity‚ Compliance‚ and Obedience." n.d). For example‚ a person will more likely agree on the wrong answer in history class if the other students chose that answer as well. This is also another reason why election votes
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Social Psychology: Attitudes and Persuasion Someones attitude is their perception of objects of thought‚ these are things such as social issues‚ products‚ and the people around them(1). There are three parts to your attitude‚ the cognitive‚ affective‚ and behavioral parts (1). Your cognitive componet is your beliefs about certian objects(1). The affective part is your emotional feelings that are caused be the objects‚ and the behavioral part is the way you act toward that object (1). It is common
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