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Conformity, it’s something everyone deals with, even if they do not realize it. Although, what happens when conformity takes control over everything? What if the world was stripped of individuality, no citizen has any rights to hold on to, while not being able to think for one’s self. That is an image what it would be like if everyone in the world were to conform to a restricting society. Just think of all of the advances in technology the human race has come up with in the last ten years alone. None of that would have been possible in a society where no one can go above another person's IQ level. This is the world the characters in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem live in. The reasons that total conformity is dangerous is because individuality is not possible, no family history, and advancement would not be possible.

Social conformity can cause issues in the real world if it is overused. For example, conformity can cause a bystander effect. The bystander effect is when people follow the crowd and fail to react when people are in need. Conformity can also cause people to do things that they don't necessarily want to do, but they do it because they don't want to be the odd one out. In the short story “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, conformity is a big idea in the book because everyone is controlled by how they think and speak.

The act of people conforming is seen every where. Any activity performed by someone that is “in the ordinary” is them conforming to the norm. In the crucible, all the girls conform to the norm, set by Abigail Williams. When Abigail faints, the girls faint, when Abigail screams, the girls scream. They mirror her in her every action due to their fear of what would occur if they did not. Same concept is seen today, for example, when you shower regularly you are conforming to the norm. You shower in fear of judgement if you were not to shower, and you shower in following the actions of others. This common action of following in others footsteps affects us by causing people to become identical and influencing people to ignore their personal morals and follow the mob of society blindly. People force physical change upon themselves due to fear of being that one

Conformity is a struggle that people encounter everyday in society. There are many examples of the different types of conformity in the world. Some of these types are in the examples I am going to discuss. In “The Sociology of the Leopard Man”, “Two Kinds”, and Dead Poet Society we learn that it is not always a good idea to conform. Although conformity can be good, I believe that it is even better for people to step out of their comfort zone and not be afraid to show who they really are.

According to Aronson (1985), conformity is “a change in a person’s opinion or behaviour as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or a group of people”.

According to Logan Feys , he says “Conformity can be seen as the world’s most common but dangerous psychological disorder.”In the story/documents of The sociology of Leopard Man, The Pedestrian, and Dead Poets Society talks about what non-conformity is about. It explains the difference between conformity and nonconformity. As we are members of conformity in today’s society, we cannot break out into the world of creativity. As we are bound to this, I believe that others should step out into the world and show who they really are in their abilities to create and follow their own voice, only then are we able to break out of this cage.

Conformity is a scary thing. The reason being is because whether you’re a conformist or a non conformist you’re looked at as either a follower, which can be bad or good, or a rebel, and rebels are thought of as savages in society. Conformists in today’s life are people who don’t think outside the box, they don’t wanna be “original”, they’re considered “sheep” by the non conformists. People who believe everything they see on TV and don’t bother to look up the actual facts on if that subject is true or not, are conformists to the “fake news” gag. Speaking of sheep, the sheep in animal farm are an example of being conformists.

On any given day people do not think about how men try so hard to be tough and not show emotion; while the women are trying to be beautiful and have a perfect image. This creates a tremendous discrepancy between how people believe a man should act and how a woman should look. People stereotype men and women and if you do not fit the mold, then there is something wrong with you. This is why almost everyone follows their particular gender lines and how people think they should be; everyone just wants to fit into our society and culture. Finally, this means that everyone continues and most likely will consistently continue, to follow society's norms just so they fit into our society and

One from our society may think otherwise, but our society is controlled as well, with conformity, religion and how a person is raised, similarly to Brave New World’s. As subconscious of a trait it can be, we are all humans that have evolved to perform as a unit. In other words, we naturally conform

In this day and time conformity is a major part of society. People conform in different ways without knowing. For instance, apple pie is considered an American symbol, true Americans love apple pie. What if certain Americans dislike apple pie, are they considered less American? In the story, “Groups and Conformity” by Michael Soloman, he emphasizes the influences of reference groups and conformity on consumer’s decisions. Rebecca Donatelle story, “Enhancing your body image”, discusses the importance of a healthy body image and the factors (the media, peers, and psychological factors) that affect it. Society is quick to follow others because of cultural pressures telling them to do so. Conformity has a negative impact on today’s society with

One thing thing I have done this week that was CONFORMITY, was trying to fit in my clinical counseling class. I never aspire to be the awkward one in the class so I notably do everything that my other classmates are doing, even if I have no idea what is being executed. On Monday in class I raised my hand when my professor said “raise your hands if you know who B.F skinner is” I didn’t want to feel left out so I raised my hand even though I didn't know who he was. The only reason I raised my hand in class was to accord with what was going on and I didn’t want to be the minority who didn’t raised their hands. Consequently the fact that the majority of the class was raising their hands was affecting myself to conform to what they were doing.

Conformity, it’s something everyone deals with even if they do not realize it. Although, what happens when conformity takes control over everything? What if the world was stripped of individuality, no citizen has any rights to hold on to, while not being able to think for one’s self. That is an image what it would be like if everyone in the world were to conform to a restricting society. Just think of all of the advances in technology the human race has come up with in the last ten years alone. None of that would have been possible in a society where no one can go above another person's IQ level. This is the world the characters in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem live in. The reasons that total conformity is dangerous is because individuality is not possible, no family history, and advancement would not be possible.

Society expects everyone to act a curtain way in their everyday lives. That is called folkways which are considered to be an everyday norm behavior; typically it is people who have kept their traditions going from past centuries. Another reason why people also behave certain ways could be because of their values and their beliefs. But not everyone accepts people 's beliefs and values. For example, breast feeding is one of the biggest controversy topics I see today throughout social media. People argue that breast feeding should not be done in public while others disagree especially woman. Woman argue that it is a part of nature and it must be done whenever their child needs of it. Therefore, my first social observation, I witnessed a young woman, in her mid-twenties) breast feeding her baby girl during a mass celebration. I go to San Clemente Catholic Church every Sunday. Ever since the norm violation assignment was assigned I have realized that even though I am in a holy church there is a lot of norm violations happening. There was

Conformity, compliance with others, and standards, rules or laws and behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards. Non conformity, Failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing rule or practice. These were the topic we talked about in my English II CP class. We read a lot of articles about nonconformity and conformity and watched videos on YouTube of experiments on the topic; One of the videos we watched was the elevator experiment where they tested if majority of random people would conform or not conform to what the group of actors in the elevator were doing. What they did to test this was they put a group of actors in a elevator facing the back of the elevator with a video camera and see when random people walked in the elevator if they would conform and face the same way the actors were out of pressure. Or if they did not conform. In this experiment majority ended up conforming. At the end of the video all the random people that participated were asked why they faced the same way the group of actors were.

Is conformity a desirable characteristic? If the world did not have nonconformists, life itself, burning living hell. Overruled by the demons that crush our morals simply because it is easier to go with the flow. As Mahatma Gandhi explicitly stated, “It’s easy to stand with the crowd, but it takes great courage to stand alone.” Society itself will be playing the role of puppets. A wave of repulsion of being controlled like robots is excruciating. Nonconformists are the soul of an authentically new frontier.