Conformity and Obedience The desire to be accepted and belong to a group is an undeniable human need. But how does this need affect an individual? Social psychologists have conducted numerous experiments and concluded that‚ through various forms of social influence‚ groups can change their members ’ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behavior. In her essay "Group Minds‚" Doris Lessing discusses our paradoxical ability to call ourselves individuals and our inability to realize that groups define
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The Boxer Rebellion “Support the Ch’ing-destroy the foreigner!”(Cohen 56). This was the slogan that was shouted from the mouths of those that were deemed as the Righteous Harmony Society in China between 1898 and 1901. The group’s main goal was to fight for China’s right to keep foreign invaders from taking over Chinese territories for the use of trade. Germany‚ Great Britain‚ France‚ Italy‚ Japan‚ and Russia all were in agreement that they had specific boundaries within the Chinese land and
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The 35th U.S. President once said‚ “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”. John F. Kennedy led the country to believe in individuality and follow our paths outside of society. Conformity has been shown in many ways in history and most lead to substandard endings. When people do not follow society’s wishes‚ diversity is defeated and they‚ themselves‚ become successful. While conformity is the reason for some of America’s most devastating events found in our history books today
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The Power of Conformity How would I recreate Asch’s experiment with the friends and family I know? I would let them play a role-play game. A role-play game is a game where you make the decisions to determine your final ending at the end of the game. To start the experiment off I would have 12 people. 4 will know about the experiment while the rest won’t. There will be 3 groups. In one group there will be 1(Person A) that is playing the game‚ 2(Person B&C) that are watching‚ 1(Person D) that knows
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class a question. You have got one answer to the question‚ but you see majority of the students raising their hands for a different answer to the same question. What would you do? Would you go along with your own answer or would you change your mind and go along with the majority thinking that if majority of the people have the same answer then the answer must be correct? Most of the people would change their minds and follow the majority. In psychology‚ conformity is defined as the tendency to change
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The definition of conformity is the act of persuasion through social influence. Conformity can be the act of matching actions‚ behaviors‚ and attitudes. In today’s day and age‚ it is so important for us to conform because we want to fit in so badly. Its very common for us to want to not stick out like a sore thumb. It’s the quote that reminds of us conformity that our mothers would always say to us “If he/she jumps off a bridge would you follow them?” There are infact certain times that we should
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be analyzed using five important themes in social psychology‚ including: conformity‚ persuasion‚ self-justification‚ aggression‚ and prejudice. Conformity is a dominating theme from start to finish and is seen in many of the characters‚ but Charlie falls victim to this most often. Beginning
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Both the Kildare rebellion of 1534 and the rebellion of the 1640s failed due to insufficient military support. If the rebels had acquired the military back-up they sought they may have initially prevailed‚ however‚ they would not have endured. The rebels would have been unable to sustain their aims due to the complex political circumstances during which they occurred. This essay discusses the events and aims of each rebellion‚ and attempts to illustrate how the rebels would have been unable to achieve
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One of the most important things to a man is feeling that he has a sense of power‚ especially in any relationship with a woman. Without this feeling of masculinity a man may feel weak and powerless. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the author Ken Kesey expresses this in the relationships between Billy Bibbit and his mother‚ Dale Harding and his wife Vera Harding‚ and Chief Bromden’s father and mother. Kesey also proves this through the characterNurse Ratched. The sense of being a true
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What was I thinking? “Torpid conformity was a kind of sin; it was stupidity itself”. What does this short and possibly confusing phrase mean? If you think about it‚ it really isn’t all that confusing. The sentence all together simply means‚ “Going along with the crowd instead of doing what you want to do is just stupid.” There have been many times that I have simply “gone along with the crowd” but I must inform you‚ that a lot of the things people consider going along with the crowd‚ I do because
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