The Relationship Between Conformity And Obedience
It is known that humans are social beings and with that comes the complexity of human interaction in societies. In all societies, there exists social influences that are known as conformity and obedience. These are traits that can be encountered in almost all societies. Both obedience and conformity involve social influence and have the ability to encourage an individual to engage in a certain behaviour. This can be done with or without the recipient of the social influence being aware that he or she is under social influence. Obedience can be seen as pressure being exerted from an individual that carries a sense of authority; for instance ones parents, a police officer or even an older sibling. Whereas conformity is seen as ones need to
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As days went on the guars became more aggressive and the prisoners began to retaliate. After six days the experiment was shut down due the escalated amount of abuse that the guard showed and the psychological disturbance that was being exhibited by the prisoners. the acceptance of the influence that was attached to the social roles is clearly classified as identification conformity. This can be seen in all social roles such as a nurse, teacher, lawyers and so on.
Throughout all these experiments it was found that the most influential factors of conformity was the size of the group, when the group works unanimously , whether the members of the group have a close relationship and the importance of the stimuli.
In conclusion both obedience and conformity exist on the same plane of social influence but on opposite ends of the plane. Sherif ,Asch and Zimbardo show us that conformity is the action of following a certain group of people and adapting to their beliefs and lifestyles due social pressure. This social pressure can be real or imagined. Notice that the power of influence lies with no individual, it lies within the group as a whole. Whereas Milgram demonstrates obedience is an act or behaviour in response to a direct order of an authority to avoid punishment . In obedience the power and control is centralized onto a single authority
As days went on the guars became more aggressive and the prisoners began to retaliate. After six days the experiment was shut down due the escalated amount of abuse that the guard showed and the psychological disturbance that was being exhibited by the prisoners. the acceptance of the influence that was attached to the social roles is clearly classified as identification conformity. This can be seen in all social roles such as a nurse, teacher, lawyers and so on.
Throughout all these experiments it was found that the most influential factors of conformity was the size of the group, when the group works unanimously , whether the members of the group have a close relationship and the importance of the stimuli.
In conclusion both obedience and conformity exist on the same plane of social influence but on opposite ends of the plane. Sherif ,Asch and Zimbardo show us that conformity is the action of following a certain group of people and adapting to their beliefs and lifestyles due social pressure. This social pressure can be real or imagined. Notice that the power of influence lies with no individual, it lies within the group as a whole. Whereas Milgram demonstrates obedience is an act or behaviour in response to a direct order of an authority to avoid punishment . In obedience the power and control is centralized onto a single authority