It’s easy to say something rather than it is to do it, in the Solomon Asch experiments it’s very clear to see that peer pressure has a huge impact on us as a whole. In this experiment you basically are forced to go for the wrong answer simply because that’s what everyone else is choosing to do. If I were there and I knew what the right answer was, I’d still pick the wrong card that everyone else is choosing because I would rather feel comfortable with everyone participating rather than stick out. It’s hard to say that I wouldn’t fall under such a trap, but I think the farthest I would go is to question myself. Then after seeing how no matter how right I think I am, I’m wrong, I would eventually just agree with the wrong choice. The Solomon
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It wasn’t so shocking to find out that where there is a good there is a bad, so here comes the negative side of conforming. Negativity is usually brought upon and people tend to really feel it. For example, if there is a group who is happy with conforming and someone comes into the group and just decides that they can mess up that cycle, the entire group is now completely dysfunctional. Another example of dysfunctionality can be how we have people who conform, but their level of conforming is so much so that they become sort of, swallowed by the idea of listening to someone. Continuing, this is why Hitler was so powerful, he got people to just obey him through the power of words and other people following along. The negativity was clearly seen as innocent people were killed and these people knew what they were doing was wrong, but they felt that conforming to these requests was completely normal. Harmful conformity in groups can lead to a wide variety of negative effects, usually it’s because of disagreement or not being able to see right from wrong, which as we know can lead to so many bad …show more content…
It’s basically everything I just talked about but in a more broad form. Power can simply mean the ability to control someone, “…rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time…” (Gray 2017). As another example, once again, Hitler is a great example of power, the way that he was able to control thousands of people with only words is crazy. It really goes to show how strong power can be. It also shows how easy it can be at times, brain washing isn’t anything new and not everyone succumbs to it, but a vast majority does. Conformity usually deals with groups and group situations; I think the most common place for conformity is in a friend group or in a school setting. Peer pressure is a great example of conformity, as we know it’s really easy to just get your opinion casted out because you don’t want to be “wrong”. “The imagined threat of being cast into the out-group can lead some people to do virtually anything to avoid their terrifying rejection” (Gray 2017). One of the main reasons people conform is to continue to fit in and have a place where they feel welcomed or accepted. We can view obedience as the following, “the lure of acceptance coupled with the threat of rejection” (Gray 2017). An amazing example of obedience would have to be the police force, they can definitely make someone do something but also possess
It wasn’t so shocking to find out that where there is a good there is a bad, so here comes the negative side of conforming. Negativity is usually brought upon and people tend to really feel it. For example, if there is a group who is happy with conforming and someone comes into the group and just decides that they can mess up that cycle, the entire group is now completely dysfunctional. Another example of dysfunctionality can be how we have people who conform, but their level of conforming is so much so that they become sort of, swallowed by the idea of listening to someone. Continuing, this is why Hitler was so powerful, he got people to just obey him through the power of words and other people following along. The negativity was clearly seen as innocent people were killed and these people knew what they were doing was wrong, but they felt that conforming to these requests was completely normal. Harmful conformity in groups can lead to a wide variety of negative effects, usually it’s because of disagreement or not being able to see right from wrong, which as we know can lead to so many bad …show more content…
It’s basically everything I just talked about but in a more broad form. Power can simply mean the ability to control someone, “…rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time…” (Gray 2017). As another example, once again, Hitler is a great example of power, the way that he was able to control thousands of people with only words is crazy. It really goes to show how strong power can be. It also shows how easy it can be at times, brain washing isn’t anything new and not everyone succumbs to it, but a vast majority does. Conformity usually deals with groups and group situations; I think the most common place for conformity is in a friend group or in a school setting. Peer pressure is a great example of conformity, as we know it’s really easy to just get your opinion casted out because you don’t want to be “wrong”. “The imagined threat of being cast into the out-group can lead some people to do virtually anything to avoid their terrifying rejection” (Gray 2017). One of the main reasons people conform is to continue to fit in and have a place where they feel welcomed or accepted. We can view obedience as the following, “the lure of acceptance coupled with the threat of rejection” (Gray 2017). An amazing example of obedience would have to be the police force, they can definitely make someone do something but also possess