The Analysis of the Phenomena of Obedience and Conformity in the Society

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The Analysis of the Phenomena of Obedience and Conformity in the Society

Yanwen Chen 1*
  • 1 Nanjing Foreign Language School    
  • *corresponding author 2498479395@qq.com
Published on 26 October 2023 | https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/14/20231013
LNEP Vol.14
ISSN (Print): 2753-7056
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ISBN (Print): 978-1-83558-053-0
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Abstract

Social Psychology is a branch belonging to the sphere of Psychology, preliminarily studying humans’ behaviors in society. Conformity and obedience, two significant terminologies in social psychology, are frequently manifested in real-life situations, such as the case that emerged during COVID-19, which firmly illustrates the above phenomena, and currently, people experience these two situations, or phenomena, often. Starting from their definitions and experiments, this paper mainly studies the phenomena of these two situations, and this aims to investigate the causes of conformity and obedience. The methodology of this paper is literature review and theoretical analysis. This paper finds that such phenomena (obedience and social conformity) could be attributed to some reasons: culture impact, internet impact, pressure impact, education impact, and the existence of authority.

Keywords:

social psychology, conformity, obedience, interpersonal influence

Chen,Y. (2023). The Analysis of the Phenomena of Obedience and Conformity in the Society. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,14,311-316.
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References

[1]. TILLICH, P. (1957). CONFORMITY. Social Research, 24(3), 354–360. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40982505

[2]. Sussex Publishers. (n.d.). Conformity. Psychology Today. Retrieved March 18, 2023, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/conformity

[3]. Schulman, G. I. (1967). Asch Conformity Studies: Conformity to the Experimenter and/or to the Group? Sociometry, 30(1), 26–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/2786436

[4]. Eckman, B. K. (1977). Research: STANLEY MILGRAM’S “OBEDIENCE” STUDIES. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 34(1), 88–99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42575230

[5]. Roksana R. Zdunek, Anna Z. Czarna, Constantine Sedikides,Grandiose (communal and agentic) narcissismand predicted (dis)obedience in the Milgram paradigm,Personality and Individual Differences,Volume189,2022,111514,ISSN 0191-8869,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111514.

[6]. Perry, G., Brannigan, A., Wanner, R. A., & Stam, H. (2020). Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments: A Reanalysis of an Unpublished Test. Social Psychology Quarterly, 83(1), 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272519861952

[7]. Fuping Zhu, 2019, Analysis of group consciousness in the phenomenon of network public opinion reversal, The Vision and Voice (06), 140-141, doi:10.19395/j.cnki.1674-246x.2019.06.079.

[8]. Yanqian He, Xiaobei, Guo, 2019, Study on the influence and Countermeasures of teenagers’ blind conformity, Teens and The Societies (27), 253-254.

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Chen,Y. (2023). The Analysis of the Phenomena of Obedience and Conformity in the Society. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,14,311-316.

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References

[1]. TILLICH, P. (1957). CONFORMITY. Social Research, 24(3), 354–360. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40982505

[2]. Sussex Publishers. (n.d.). Conformity. Psychology Today. Retrieved March 18, 2023, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/conformity

[3]. Schulman, G. I. (1967). Asch Conformity Studies: Conformity to the Experimenter and/or to the Group? Sociometry, 30(1), 26–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/2786436

[4]. Eckman, B. K. (1977). Research: STANLEY MILGRAM’S “OBEDIENCE” STUDIES. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 34(1), 88–99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42575230

[5]. Roksana R. Zdunek, Anna Z. Czarna, Constantine Sedikides,Grandiose (communal and agentic) narcissismand predicted (dis)obedience in the Milgram paradigm,Personality and Individual Differences,Volume189,2022,111514,ISSN 0191-8869,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111514.

[6]. Perry, G., Brannigan, A., Wanner, R. A., & Stam, H. (2020). Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments: A Reanalysis of an Unpublished Test. Social Psychology Quarterly, 83(1), 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272519861952

[7]. Fuping Zhu, 2019, Analysis of group consciousness in the phenomenon of network public opinion reversal, The Vision and Voice (06), 140-141, doi:10.19395/j.cnki.1674-246x.2019.06.079.

[8]. Yanqian He, Xiaobei, Guo, 2019, Study on the influence and Countermeasures of teenagers’ blind conformity, Teens and The Societies (27), 253-254.

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