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Using research evidence, explain conformity and obedience
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Using research evidence, explain conformity and obedience. Within any society, conformity and obedience are required factors with which to maintain a balanced order. Without social normalities or, the desire to merge into society and to be liked by others virtually nothing could grow or prosper. The two states of: conformity, a state achieved when one cedes to outside real or imagined social pressure and obedience, a compliance to an authoritative figure walk side by side. It could be said that each requires the other for existance: people would not display obedience to a higher power unless they wished to conform to a normality displayed by others as they obeyed a command; just as equally as people would not, for example, stand in an orderly queue unless a teacher or other authority figure had instructed them to do so. The human psyche is ingrained with a desire to be right and to be...
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