conformity=behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.
compliance= to act in accordance with a wish or command
. obedience= complying with a person or group perceived to be a legitimate authority.
Which of the following is a difference between obedience and conformity?
Obedience is obeying someone with a higher status;
conformity is going along with people of equal status
. Obedience relies on social power; conformity relies on the need to be socially accepted.
What is the main difference between conformity and compliance?
Conformity is a voluntary act while compliance is imposed
. More importantly from the perspective of those creating a standard, these two processes begin with two different attitudes.
– Normative influence:
involves going along with the crowd in order to be liked and accepted
. – Informational: going along with the crowd because you think the crowd knows more than you do. – is defined as a change in behavior due to the intentional influence of others.
What is the continuum of social influence? it
shows that social influences vary in the degree of pressure they bring to bear on an individual.
What are the 3 types of conformity?
There are three types of conformity:
compliance, identification and internalisation
.
What is an example of compliance?
Buying something after being persuaded by a pushy salesperson or trying a particular brand of soda after seeing a commercial endorsement featuring your favorite celebrity
are two examples of what is known as compliance.
What are the similarities and differences between obedience and conformity?
Conformity is peer pressure
, the individual was not asked to do, he just do it to go along with everyone else because the individual wants to be accepted. Obedience on the other hand comes from authoritative people such as teachers and policemen.
Why do we conform and obey?
Conformity is one effect of the influence of others on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. … Obedience is
the change of an individual's behavior to comply with a demand by an authority figure
. People often comply with the request because they are concerned about a consequence if they do not comply.
What are the similarities between conformity and obedience?
Conformity has a subtle approach but is nonetheless considered a voluntary act. Obedience requires direct authority and influence from leaders (usually adults or people with power).
Pressure and influence are evident
in both conformity and obedience. The reasons for conformity and obedience also differ.
Informational Influence (AO1/AO3)
An example of this is if
someone was to go to a posh restaurant for the first time, they may be confronted with several forks and not know which one to use
, so they might look to a near by person to see what fork to use first.
What is normative social influence?
A form of influence whereby an individual conforms to the majority in order to gain approval and acceptance
. … The individual must believe they are under surveillance by the group. When this happens, they may conform publicly, but nor privately.
Who is most likely to conform to a group?
We are more likely to conform when
the group is one we care
about, when the group members are unanimous in their thoughts or behaviors, when the group has three or more members, and when we are members of collectivist cultures.
3 THREE TYPES OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE. There are three types of influence that a social presence can have on a consumer:
utilitarian, value-expressive, and informational
(Burnkrant & Cousineau, 1975; Deutsch & Gerard, 1955; Park & Lessig, 1977).
Social influence comprises the
ways in which individuals change their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment
. It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.
Any process whereby a person's attitudes
(1), opinions, beliefs, or behaviour are altered or controlled by some form of social communication. It includes conformity, compliance, group polarization, minority social influence, obedience, persuasion, and the influence of social norms (1).
