Conformity
Conformity is all around us in this world. It is not something we are happy with, since it gives us the pressure and limits our freedom. Conformity can be sometimes useful and sometimes frustrated. Conformity is related to authority. Authority means legitimate power. There are many legitimate authorities in our daily life from our parents to teachers or politicians, who are in a higher position than we are at. We just follow what they tell us to do without questioning why we have to follow. We are obedient to these people. There is a psychological experiment that deals with the issue of obedience, by Staley Milgram. We are clearly able to say that what is wrong as an individual; however, when we get together as a group, we are no longer able to say that wrong is wrong under the pressure of an authority figure. Why does it happen? To answer this question, I will explore two aspects of conformity that might be good explanations of humanfs behavior which are to group and to......
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