Comformity Vs Conformity

1: People tick and tock around me as I stand still 2:I am an individual in a world full of equals 3: Conformity moves around me in synchrony 4: I stand alone, faceless 5: They stop on the street they see me as different 6: I have stumbled in the rat race left for dead. 7: Self consciousness swarms the people 8: Different, wrong they mean the same 9: Different clothes wrong 10: Different body wrong 11: Different ethnicity wrong, 12: Self consciousness

People generally like to stay in their comfort zone, they do not like changes. However, change is a necessary part of life, we see change in nature every day. Change can be positive or negative. We can choose to embrace the change or reject it, we also can choose to allow the change to have a negative or positive impact on our lives. Helmstetter lists six steps when dealing with change. First to recognize the change, then to decide if you are going to accept or reject the change. The next step is to choose your attitude toward the change, then choose how you are going to deal with it and what actions you are going to take. The last step is to evaluate your progress of accepting the change (Lamberton and Minor, 2012)

Conformity and Its Meaning This assignment focuses upon conformity and what it means to us. Conformity is defined by Zimbardo (1992) as "A tendency for people to adopt behaviour, values and attitudes of other members of a reference group". Why people conform is a topic of much debate.

Humans make all sorts of implications, different types directed to variant people. However, in this case three sources go in depth and analysis how conformity can create boundaries or barriers between you and society. Today, the influences of social pressure on rejection or acceptance can drastically modify someones perception or behavior. Moreover, we tend to oblige to norm. With limitations and boundaries authoritatively mandating us to differentiate right from wrong or whether to look left or right, it is almost to easy to blend along side of others. It seems like society's standards control our future actions. It is almost impossible to sustain a pristine thought.

Conformity refers to an individual’s behavior that is performed because of group pressure, even though that pressure might not involve a direct request. Many people want to think that they are conformist enough so that they are not looked upon as strange to others and nonconformist enough to demonstrate that they are capable of thinking by themselves. For many years, psychologists have been interested in human conformity. Usually when people are in groups, they behave according to how those in the group behave. That indicates that conformity can affect a person’s behavior and make a person do things that may be against their ethics, attitudes, and morals. The study of

Throughout history, many have tried to break away from society's norms in an attempt to live life more fully, one example would be Rosa Parks when she stood up for her rights and didn't move to the back of the bus like society has shaped the laws back then. As a result of this incident, Parks ended up getting arrested and sent to court for not following the law. In contrast, some may choose to follow the rules of others thinking that’s their best decision. An example of this figure would be Boxer from the book Animal Farm, when he adopted his first motto “ I will work harder” (Orwell 18) after the first harvest following the Rebellion. Boxer never knew about the advantage Napoleon was taking on towards him,

I agree that change is an unavoidable event that people react to base on their temperaments and coping mechanisms. Some people, who are considered laggards and rejectors, might call this change as adversity. Mullins (2009) stated that it isn’t how much adversity we face in our lives, but how we face them. Do we let it overpower us? Or, do we embrace it? It is indeed the role of the change agent to recognize and understand that there are different responses to the change. The question now relies to what responses do we have to put our efforts in order for the change to be successful. Do we focus on the laggards and rejectors because they are the wall that hinder us from moving forward?

I formally agree with most of what Feys conveys as his ideas of conformity and why in our society it is a big deal of whether or not people should conform by the will of others. Feys main argument against the normality of conformity is when he states, “ Living in society, we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality to the will of the majority.” Most people of society have agreed to this statement without replying to this direct comment but everyone knows the idea of peer-pressure in which an individual is emotionally pushed to do something that was not wanted of them. We see the issues of peer pressure in a number of places, for example, in a study by Thomas J Berndt a professor of developmental psychology conducted an experiment

“It's weird not to be weird.” We all have our different sides of being someone, some of us try to fit in and some of us just want to be ourselves. We wonder why conformity would always beat individuality and not have individuality beat conformity? The meaning of conformity would be “behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.” To add on, the meaning of individuality means “separate existence.” So most of the people in the world would try to be individuals but once in a lifetime they would conform with others. My own view of conformity and individuality as it relates to humanity, society, teenagers, and the world is when we fit in with others which is conforming cut this is why we should ce ourselves and not try to fit in with others, let them accept us by the way we are. In my opinion we should try to be individuals and not be conformist because we should appreciate who we are.

In reading Chapter 29, I took in that writing styles are tricky. The topic we want to write about should be dissected, so we can find out the audience that we intend to reach. We are choosing to write about the topic with a purpose and how to reach that audience. The formality and stance we decide will hopefully hold the audiences attention.

Life is a consistent movement. People have experienced their childhood in a wide range of neighborhoods, schools, and with individuals from a wide range of foundations. One’s surroundings during their childhood make quite a bit of their identity today considering where they grew up. Through the greater part of the adjustments throughout one’s life, or maybe as a result of them, one has to keep up and gain a one of a kind identity and qualities.

Some lives have to endure more fluctuation than others do, for sure, but no life is without circumstances will test and challenge one’s capabilities. Having wanted to stay true to my root while adjusting to life in a new country was more challenging than expected. With the abrupt change in not only culturally, but also socially and environmentally, alienation sound like an understatement. “For new things to begin, something has to end” so I was told. The repeated phrase pressed down on me as though what I felt was invalid. Those stormy years feeling like a fish out of water seemed all too blurry to recall.

Maybe it is a new job, or the promise of seeing old friends. Moving is a perfect example of how pain and change can equal gain. Although difficult to accept, sometimes embracing the odd variation can be rewarding.

As a child I learned early on that, I loved being unique. I wore what I wanted to wear and did what I wanted to do. No matter how deranged I looked I could care less of what people’s opinions were of me. It wasn’t until middle school, I realized it's abnormal to be different . My wardrobe consisted of what I thought was appropriate and comfortable to wear, but my friends wore shirts that went up to their belly button and shorts that stopped at their buttcheeks. I knew that what they wore wasn’t God honoring and overly sexual for a 8th grader, but I wanted to become just another face in the crowd. I conformed to peer pressure, even though I was bigger in height than most girls and had a different body shape I wanted to look like them. I spent fifty dollars on one shopping trip for two articles of clothing just to fit in. Unlike the other girls, I didn't have parents with money overflowing out of their pockets. I spent money that I saved from weeks of making mustard in Chinatown for two shirts that I didn't even feel comfortable wearing and thus began years of self loathing.

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.” -Anon. After living in a place I loved for eleven years, I did not think that I would be able to have the same feelings or emotions towards another place. I thought everything I had was where I had been for years, but I was wrong. If you go into something new with a good attitude and know that there is always something else out there, then it works out for the best. Moving to Reno,