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Conformity

Remember those times in class when the teacher has asked a question and the answer in your mind is correct, but when you look around the majority have chosen an answer completely opposite? What about the time your friends pressured you into stealing that shirt or CD. Or mocking little Billy because he was a ‘geek’? At the time there was no problems. As a part of the group you felt confident, secure and “like so cool”.

But when you found that your answer was actually the correct one or were caught with the items in your bag or punished for taunting Little Billy, do you remember your cowardly reason for acting as you did? The vast majority of people will recall saying, “Everybody is doing it” – in my opinion this is a sentence that is one of the worst four-word combinations in the English language.

Conformity involves the changing of one’s attitudes, opinions, or behaviors to match those of the ‘norms’. The “norms”, established by society, are......


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