Conformity

Question 1

What is compliance?

Answer 1

A person who goes along with other people’s behaviour or attitude but does not believe them to be correct. They comply publicly to keep the peace and gain approval

Question 2

What is identification?

Answer 2

Individuals adjust their behaviours and opinions to those of the group as membership of the group is desirable. They believe both privately and publicly, but often temporary (will go away once you leave the group)

Question 3

What is internalisation?

Answer 3

The individual accepts the groups view and genuinely believes that to be correct; permanent.

Question 4

What is informal social influence?

Answer 4

When people want to be seen as “in the right”. So we look to others to see how they behave and replicate it (as we believe they have more knowledge) and example would be a dress code. This is internalisation.

Question 5

What is normative social influence?

Answer 5

People need to fit in with the norm of the group, so they will conform for social approval. But wont change private behaviour. An example would be be eating something at a friends house. This is compliance.

Question 6

What is the Autonomous state?

Answer 6

When you have free will

Question 7

What is the Agentic state?

Answer 7

Acting as an agent for someone else and carrying out their bidding

Question 8

Explain agentic shift?

Answer 8

• person in autonomous state
• feel moral strain
• shift into agentic state
• do thing because of binding factors (person in authority)