Hitler Youth: Conformity In A Time Of Conflict

Individuals alternate their general behaviour and opinions both privately and publicly. Being a member of a group is highly desirable. When group is left opinions and behaviour change back to normal

In The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, written by Alexandra Robbins, the reader is expected to connect the lack of individuality of many in high schoolers to the results of the social and biological experiments by Asch and Berns. Throughout the story, Robbins in constantly showing how high schoolers are conforming to peer expectations, despite their own personal interests. Because of a fear of rejection for uniqueness, many high schoolers share the opinions that “I have to be the same as everybody else, or no one will like me.” Personally, I have observed similar experiences. People fear being different. For this reason, everyone wears converses, everyone has Swell bottles, and everyone wears Lokai bracelets. Following these trends allow people to fit in. In addition, high

The quote by Martin Luther King Jr “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he made stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”. This quote means that a man’s personality/character is shaped and determined by the way he reacts and responds to the difficulties and hardships that he face’s. The way in which this quote by Martin Luther King” relates to the novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird” is the way Atticus feels when he defends Tom Robinson. From the outside he looks all confident and professional but from the inside he is very nervous and scared. Even though Tom Robinson is a black man it makes it difficult for Atticus because they were in the era of the Great Depression where there

In the article “The Sociology of Leopard Man” written by Logan Feys, I agree that society takes people’s individuality to make them fit in and be like everyone else even they should be themselves. There are multiple example, explanations, and resolutions on this situation. People changing their appearance, Leopard Man refusing to give in, conformity trending, and seceding from society are some of the examples and solutions to this problem.

Adolf Hitler, was a german politician that ended up as the Nazi Party leader. Her created Hitler youth to use education as a way to turn students into Nazis. In “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow.” author Susan Campbell Bartolletti discusses the way Adolf Hitler used education to further Nazi ideals. Hitler changed standard textbooks into Nazi-approved ones, didn’t allow students to have their own personal ideas, and to only have teachers that taught Nazi-approved ideas.

As stated in our textbook, “Conformity is a change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure.” One can believe that most people will torture an innocent person just because they are ordered to because of the conditioning received since childhood. Obedience is a type of social influence where someone acts in response to a direct order from an authoritative figure doing the influencing. The epitome experiment by Stanley Milgram concluded that most people followed orders from the authoritative figure regardless how immoral the act was. People continued to send electric shock to people knowing that it was causing pain and can possibly lead to death.

The idea of conformity is to eliminate individualism and to unite the society together, making it a safer place for the citizens to live, and develop in. A place that has no war, no hunger and no pain, where citizens create strong bonds between each other. The Giver written by Lois Lowry represents the idea of conformity in the society where they try to keep everyone the same as each other by following the same rules and trying to avoid having people stand out by receiving daily pills to lose the feeling of inclination between each other.

We are all told that there is a wrong and right way to live our lives. These people are referring to conforming and not conforming to society. Conformity is a noun that means, “compliance with standards, rules, or laws.” The degrees of conforming go from wearing clothes in public like everyone else to following everything everyone does. There are many pieces of literature on this topic. A novel, short story, and poem proves that conformity is the dull way to live life and keeping individuality may be hard, but is worth it. In M.T. Anderson’s novel Feed, it shows the readers that conforming takes away diversity and makes it easier for a government or powerful business to take over and dictate the world. In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison

As humans, our lives are revolved around the line that separates conformity and individuality. Conformity is a type of social influence that includes a change of belief or behavior to fit into a group. Many people can cross the line too far back or too far forward, thus being too much of a conformist or too much of an individual.Conformity is essential to life. Humans live in a society that functions as a whole. If there is a mistake, the entire system may fail. So, we are obligated conform to social norms and laws to stay together as a whole. There’s several types of conformity; Normative conformity,which is to give into group pressure because a person wants to fit in with the

Conformity is behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards. Also according to Webster's dictionary social repression is is the act of controlling, subduing or suppressing people, groups and larger social aggregations by interpersonal means. I agree to the greater extent that during the 1950’s were a time of conformity and social repression. In American life housing, genders and culture get an impact on conformity and social repression.

Conforming and moving against one’s true nature is often harmful to their mental state of being. This can be demonstrated by how “conformity can be seen as America’s most common, but dangerous psychological disorder”(Fey 6). People often force themselves into

Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement. The Nazis ruled Germany through a dictatorship and instilled ideals that are inhumane and unjust. After Germany’s defeat in WWII the Nazi Party was outlawed and the top leaders of the party convicted of war crimes. As the citizens of Germany tried to cope with the horrors brought on by WWII, many stories were published by minorities who were targeted by the Nazis. While these stories were being released, many people who supported the Nazis say that they too were victims of the party. People who supported the Nazi regime can not say that they were victims of the Nazis because their experiences were not as bad as the other minority groups who were targeted by Hitler.

Jeanne never sees the battle fronts or the policy changes, all she sees are the results they have on her everyday life. She deals with the racist undertones formed by the anti-japanese war propaganda. While in the camp she fears she will just be beaten and despised once outside, but this does not happen. Instead she faces the minute racism that is the most common form of bigotry. Jeanne faces this racism from not only students but teachers and strangers. While in high school, many teachers tried to manipulate the vote of Prom Queen to go to another students, when Jeanne got the most votes. Earlier in her childhood, Jeanne and her brother Kiyo were spat on by a passerby and insulted for being Japanese. These and many other examples show the racism she faced

In society, conformity is very common to see in many different situations. It is seen in groups of friends,cultures, and even through strangers. It can be shown in numerous ways, positive or negative. Conform means to comply to rules or standards. Throughout life, conformity and its ideas are good for society because it creates companionship,organization,and tradition.

Conformity essentially is a change in behavior or beliefs as the result of real or imagined pressure. In the video, David Stewart, who had never showed his face was able to manipulate Donna Jean Summers and others to sexually abuse Louise Ogborn in the backroom of the McDonald. Donna Jean Summers’ behaviors are explainable using the concept of conformity and obedience. First of all, status have effects on conformity, that is, people with status and authority encourage conformity. We respect police officers, and have been told to always follow what the police tell us to do. Summers explained that she just followed the direction of what the “police” told her to do, and she thought that was the right thing to do. This show the fact that we