Conformity Types & Explainations
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- Created on: 10-02-16 09:32
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- Conformity
- Types
- Compliance
- Suggests sometimes people only superficially go along with group norms
- For example A pupil who is asked to straighten their tie by a teacher later on loosens it
- Internalisation
- Suggests that sometimes people genuinely change their private opinions and beliefs to those of the group norms
- For example A student returns from the first term at university a vegetarian like his flatmates
- Identification
- Suggests some people conform to the opinions of the group without necessarily agreeing with all the groups ideas
- For example A student returning from the first term at university is desperate for roast beef, having been a vegetarian along with the rest of her flatmates
- Compliance
- Explainations
- Normative Social Influence
- Suggests that people conform because they seek social approval
- For example The new student looks around to see if others are wearing shoes or trainers
- Informational Social Influence
- Suggests that people conform when they feel that others have the right answer
- For example On the first day in a new job you watch to see whether everyone else fills in a document the same way
- Deutsch and Gerrard
- Normative Social Influence
- Types
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