CONFORMITY

Implications of Conformity

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Introduction

Everyone in the world tends to establish relations and friendship with the things around oneself. As in reality, beliefs that are normally assumed to be unchanged yet they do get changed. According to Emler & Hogan (2013, p. 9), people take pressures from other groups and may change their attitudes in order to receive approval from them. This paper aims to discover the term conformity in the context of its importance with the people in the society and make important hypothesis on the basis of its types. There are many conformity assessment tests that make sure of the presence of corresponding role of the conformity.

Discussion

Conformity

According to Maecker et al. (2013, pp.429-431), conformity is a kind of societal influence including a change in beliefs or attitudes that enables them to be fitting within the groups. The said change is measured to be falling under the change in reaction to real physical presence with respect to the things around. In other words, it can be imagined including the social pressure that comes from the societal norms and group's hope. Conformity can also be explained as “yielding to group pressures”. In this regard, there can be a variety of forms of group pressure.

There are types of conformity tests that help to calculate the degree of conformity one has to the existing environment. Conformity assessment results should not be regarded as a kind of thorough proof that the facility fulfils and will always meet the requirements. Demonstration of fulfilment or conformity can be performed with shifting degrees of reliability and expressiveness depending on needs and opportunities.

Theoretical Implications

There are deep implications of psychological theories that attempt to explain the psychological explanation of the importance of conformity.

Behavioural Theories

According to Gwinn et al. (2013, pp.464-470), behavioural psychology that is also referred as behaviourism is based on a mere theoretical explanation of learning founding on certain philosophy. The idea says that all the behaviours are attained through 'conditioning'. This idea has been suggested by John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner as well who believed that conditioning is the main reason behind enabling the altering of attitudes. This stance is widely accepted and broadcasted due to the fact that in order to gain certain goals people tend to change their attitudes and beliefs, even it is assumed impossible to be changed.

Cognitive Theories

These theories are mainly focused on exploring the internal emotional status of a person like motivation, decision making process, thinking pattern, span of attention, problem solving modes and many others. The theories attempt to deliver explanation for the people forgetting beliefs or attitudes and replacing them with the new ones. The people when find that their existing beliefs are not receiving acceptance from the majority of the people, they may try to change them in order to achieve conformity. In the beginning, they may show some retaliation, however, that can be replaced with having greater urge for ...