assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which a current state
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Chad Albrecht English 1302 July 28‚ 2005 Conformity and Individuality in a Small Town John Updike was born in Shillington‚ Pennsylvania on March 18‚ 1932. His father was a high school math teacher who supported the entire family‚ including his grandparents on his mothers side. As a child‚ Updike wanted to become a cartoonist because of The New Yorker magazine. He wrote articles and poems and kept a journal. John was an exceptional student and received a full scholarship to Harvard University
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lives. This was briefly explained by William Golding in his article‚ The Way of Thinking. He smartly classified people based on their way of thinking and embodied the three groups in the statuettes found in his headmaster’s office—Venus De Milo‚ Leopard‚ and The Thinker. The first statuette embodied those who do not question; third-grade thinkers as he likes to call them. Stampede in nature‚ these are the ones that haven’t really understood their core beliefs evidently making them contradict their
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a rosy dot over the ’i’ of loving. A large nose is the mark of a witty‚ courteous‚ affable‚ generous and liberal man.” Cyrano de Bergerac a play by Edmond Rostand‚ which takes place in the seventeenth century France. The protagonist‚ Cyrano‚ is a poet who claims to have a “long” nose which makes him feel insecure and keeps him from revealing his love for his cousin Roxane. Conformity can create an equality and justice in society‚ if rejected the individual will have a low self esteem‚ as well as
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side of the spectrum. When one gives complete obedience he or she turns into a puppet for whoever is pulling the strings. In the military the person are shaped into a way that they fear going against authority even if it’s unlawful. I have seen a man physical assault another just cause someone in a high authority told him too. The reward was not there but there was plenty to risk because he later on was criminally charged. What makes someone just so blindly go into a situation without question
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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself”. Rita Mae Brown displays the message of nonconformity and existential views throughout her writings. Brown supports the idea of individuality and originality through forms of isolation. Albert Camus displays his existential views through the motif of conformity and confinement in his novel The Stranger .This portrayal of the difference between society’s expectations and a character’s mentality of refusing to conform
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Conformity Conformity is a major theme in Fight Club‚ and there are a number of specific scenes that display the rejection of it and characters falling victim to it‚ sometimes unbeknownst to them. The Narrator‚ our main character‚ is a complex individual. He fits into almost every textbook example of social psychology. He is a complete nutcase. In fact‚ he is so incredibly insane‚ that he creates an imaginary friend with whom he transforms himself into a different person‚ free from the bonds of
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that product. Consider an advertisement for a car. A sports car is dangerous and expensive. The owner of that car must be a risk-taker so to buy one is an expression of that person is or wants to be. No one appeals to the conformist‚ but the family man‚ mini-van‚ the free spirit‚ the jeep‚ or the boss‚ the hummer. It is the craving for an identity or unique sense of self‚ meaning to our lives that allots the ad its power. The conformist would be looking specifically for a group to gain this identity
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Conformity can be used in many different types of ways. Sometimes conformity can be used in a bad way like in behavior like changing to fit in. Then‚ it can be used in a good way like when a person can look up to someone to be there for them. Conformity can be used in many negative ways like a person changing who they really are just to fit in. When one is forced to be like by others part self respect is lost because never should a person to like something because they have to. “You lose something
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This reasoning was confirmed by another experiment conducted by Sis trunk and Mc David. They used tasks and items with which women were more familiar than males. The results showed that in this case males yielded much easily and showed greater conformity. Other reason cited for females’ higher
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