Social Psychology - Conformity
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- Created on: 06-02-18 11:53
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- Conformity
- Kelman (1985) found three types of conformity
- Compliance
- Going along with a group and changing public views and behaviour but not privately changing attitude
- Identification
- The individual adopts the groups attitude and change their private views
- Internalisation
- Individuals go along with a group due to acceptance of their views
- Compliance
- Deutsch and Gerard (1955) discovered the two process theory that says there are two main reasons people conform and are based on two central human needs
- Informative Social Influence
- The need to be right so an individual info from others due to a need for confidence that their beliefs are correct. More likely when the situation is ambiguous or others are experts
- Normative Social Influence
- The need to be liked. An individual conforms due to a need for social reasons and fear of rejection. Most likely to occur in public situations.
- Informative Social Influence
- Variables affecting conformity
- Group Size
- Unanimity
- Task Difficulty
- Confidence
- Personality
- Age
- Agentic State
- Milgram (1963) proposed the idea of the agency theory, where we are socialised from a young age to obey a hierarchy.
- In order to achieve this, an individual has to give up their free will to an authority figure where they are de-individuated and the authority is to blame for the individual's actions
- This may cause individuals to experience a MORAL STRAIN and high levels of ANXIETY
- when a person has control of their actions, they are in an autonomous state
- Binding factors are aspects of the situation that allows the person to ignore the damaging effect of their behaviour,
- Such as shifting blame to the victim or denying the damage they were causing
- In order to achieve this, an individual has to give up their free will to an authority figure where they are de-individuated and the authority is to blame for the individual's actions
- Milgram (1963) proposed the idea of the agency theory, where we are socialised from a young age to obey a hierarchy.
- Legitimacy of Authority
- Societies are structured in a hierarchical way which is legitimate as it has been agreed by society
- Our obedience to legitimate authority is because we have been socialised to obey during childhood
- A consequence of this legitimate authority is that some have the power to punish others
- People are willing to give up their free will and independence to people they trust to exercise their rights properly
- Societies are structured in a hierarchical way which is legitimate as it has been agreed by society
- Kelman (1985) found three types of conformity
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