“We are half ruined by conformity‚ but we should be wholly ruined without it.” The words spoken by Charles Dudley Warner couldn’t be any more true as conformity has become as common as going to sleep after a long day of work. Throughout time people have always had different opinions on conformity. Back in the time of the Ancient Greeks‚ a playwright named Sophocles based one of his plays on the topic of conformity. The play was called Antigone and was based on a girl with a royal background who purposely
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Social conformity is a kind of social influence on human beings that changes their behavior or in order to fit in with others in a group. Throughout the history‚ social scientists have done plenty of experiments related to social conformity. In the 1950s‚ a psychologist called Solomon Asch conducted the well-known Asch conformity experiments‚ demonstrating the impact of social pressure on individual behavior. Participants were told that they were in an experiment on vision. With a group of other
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Conformity and Obedience. In order to answer the question it is first necessary to define conformity and obedience. According to Woods‚ (2001 p. 107): ‘ We often adjust our actions or opinions so that they fit in well with those of other people. This is known as social conformity ......’ And Gross‚ (2001 pg.392) stated that: Obedience is affected by direction (from somebody in higher authority). This essay will explore circumstances in which we are likely to conform;
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Conformity and Alienation Essay Outline Thesis: Human behavior‚ feelings and thoughts can be predicted‚ altered and controlled through conformity and alienation. Alienation: estrangement from society’s morals and goals‚ resulting in feelings of isolation. Conformity: compliance with society’s accepted behavior and rules. Experiments Asch Experiment in Conformity Solomon Asch 8 male students‚ 7 confederates and 1 real participant Confederates gave an obviously wrong answer Went along
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Explanations of conformity Why do we conform? Deutsch and Gerrard 1955 decided that there were 2 possible reasons why you would conform. They suggested that it was either due to Normative social influence or due to informational social influence. Normative social influence Need: - Humans have basic need to we want to feel accepted‚ approved and liked and as a member of a group How it leads to conformity: - in order to gain acceptance by others‚ we often conform to the
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Conformity in a Gym Setting The gym can be an intimidating setting to some‚ while others may feel at home in the gym. There seem to be many preconceived notions of what a gym is like‚ who is generally found in that setting‚ and the behaviours that are regularly performed there. In a gym setting‚ it is easy to see what is ‘normal’ - minimal interactions with people unless accompanied by a friend or trainer‚ athletic clothing worn‚ headphones in‚ and so on. It is also relatively easy to see people
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TOK 1. Persuasion through images.(IV) Images are often not appealing to reason‚ but to emotions. This is not to say that a lot of thought does not go into graphical expression‚ but that the images are all ways aimed at moving the viewer visually. For example a form of visual theatre‚ burlesque will often attack something by representing it so as to look inane. In this case there is an interpreting process going on‚ but the audience must necessarily have an emotional
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As a society we like to believe that conformity is about acting the way others do‚ following the crowd; but conformity is actually more complex than that. Conformity involves behaving and thinking differently from the way that you would usually behave and think if you were alone. According to Guandong & colleagues‚ “conformity is defined as a subject’s behavior or attitudes following those of the object. The subject is the individual who conforms. The object can be external or internal factors that
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family”; that life was perfect. Other historians believe that the 1950s was a time for deviancy; they believe that most parents could not control their rebellious teenagers. Elaine Tyler May convincingly and compelling argues that a culture of conformity developed and took root in
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The Importance of Conformity In Economics 101‚ students can learn from the law of diminishing marginal utility the reason why water is cheaper than diamond. It can be simply summed up as: the more we get‚ the less pleasure we can derive. Although water is essential to our life‚ we get such a large quantity that we are no longer sensitive to its additional happiness. On the other hand‚ the quantity of diamond is so limited that its marginal utility can easily outweigh that of water. We are more
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