Compare And Contrast Obedience And Conformity

Compare and contrast the concepts of conformity and obedience

Conformity is the tendency for people to take on the behaviors, attitudes, and opinions of other members of a group. Conformity is also the changing of behavior to go along with the rest of the group. Obedience is the compliance with an order, request or law or submission to another’s authority. According to psychology, obedience is the form of social influence that involves performing an action under the orders of an authority figure. Obedience is different from conformity in three ways: Obedience involves an order while conformity involves a request, obedience involves following the order of someone with a higher status but in conformity one is going along with the ideas or choices of someone with an equal status, and obedience relies on social power; whereas conformity relies on social

A case study by Bochiaro and Zamperini supports that the response of people within a group, when faced with certain social objects, can change in terms of a relationship engaged. Conformism is the change in people’s thinking, feeling and the way they may act due to the pressure whether it is real or implied that is demonstrated by the group. They also support that conformism and obedience are not necessarily negative. Without the two it will be a chaotic world because social norms are the basis of conformism and obedience. (Bocchiaro, Zamperini, 2012). Fiske has the same opinion indicating that people who are connected live longer, healthier and happier lives than those that are isolated.

Analyze a classical study concerning the effect of group influence on the self

Stanley Milgram’s experimental research where participants were given increasing shocks for every wrong answer. Although there were some