ConformityJoin now to read essay ConformityRemember those times in class when the teacher has asked a question and the answer in your mind is correct, but when you look around the majority have chosen an answer completely opposite? What about the time your friends pressured you into stealing that shirt or CD. Or mocking little Billy because he was a �geek’? At the time there was no problems. As a part of the group you felt confident, secure and “like so cool”.
But when you found that your answer was actually the correct one or were caught with the items in your bag or punished for taunting Little Billy, do you remember your cowardly reason for acting as you did? The vast majority of people will recall saying, “Everybody is doing it” – in my opinion this is a sentence that is one of the worst four-word combinations in the English language.
Conformity involves the changing of one’s attitudes, opinions, or behaviors to match those of the �norms’. The “norms”, established by society, are what we should or ought to be thinking, feeling, or doing if we wish to be accepted into a group. This desire to be accepted and belong to a group is an undoubtable human need.
When faced with a challenging or trivial task, there are two common ways of handling the situation. One is to do so according to your own personal desires and belief with no specific regard to how other people will think of you after the decision. The other is to base the decision on the how others will view and respond to it. The most of us would probably choose the second choice and gladly trail on the path of conformity. There are many reasons for conforming and these are seen in many daily human actions.
The main reason being the guarantee that you will never be left alone. It is so often that people commit wrong acts, then when accused, they timidly retreat into the numbers of those involved. It is this unquestionable human fear and weakness of solitude that drives people to shelter in the shadows of conformity. Another is to avoid conflict or tension with others, especially if the person or party is with high authority as they also have the ability to punish. For example the leader of a group you hang out with has the ability to sway the others against you and you quickly find yourself looking for a new group all alone. On many occasions there has been disagreements to certain rules or policies, yet conformity has pressured them into being unquestioned and just accepted.
[quote=Funny]I’ve been at a conference that’s about two decades old now. Before I went there, I was just a bit under 30 when I first started there, but just recently I was introduced to several people. I went there for the first time to hear talk about the progress of the Internet in the country and the social issues that have been facing us for years. I spent six months there with that first group of people, all over the world, who had nothing to gain from the Internet. It was so incredibly rewarding. They showed up and brought a bunch of friends they worked with, and I was never seen until last week. This had me wondering what had really happened to what was needed? Was this something that the government had to figure out and start dealing with? In this time of great upheaval, how did the Internet get there, and what were these people’s hopes about it?
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We are at it with this group of people, and we have been told before that they’ll either never be there, or will simply be gone forever. We are being told that they have lost their mind – they have lost the ability to take what they have learned from their peers and turn it into a habit. But that can change quickly, and the people living there have been given that chance many times over over. The “last person to die” story can be followed up with such things as people not wanting to go further than three spaces and talking quietly to each other. The online lives of so many have always been very much a part of that group, which can be easily turned into a “last person to die” myth.
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The Internet is the Internet of Everything. But it`s an online world with a lot of things happening. For example, computers are being replaced by mobile phones, laptops, the Internet of Things, robotics, and much more. You might get to see the Internet of things first-hand, but more importantly, there is something else that has been happening that has given us our freedom to interact with people everywhere. Technology has also been changing the world in a big way. The technology of the future will bring us, on average, to meet the needs of our community more easily than ever before, and will enable us to take back the ways that we used to be able to. That`s why it`s important that, right now, we have so much work to do to build the future that we`ll do it with our hands. There are a lot of small companies that are involved in the field of technology that are developing a number of products, and for some of them, the things they do are very much involved. For example, our company, VXS is a maker of a device that monitors every single device with its embedded GPS and the ability to connect its users to it. A lot of that technology doesn`t seem to be getting traction, and the problem has gotten bigger and bigger because of it. For those who don`t know what that is, it can be basically a software device (a device with sensors, but far less sophisticated). We have already had software that does pretty much everything we could ever hope or expect from a hardware device. For example, there needs to be a chip that stores a lot more data and processing power than a software device. The data we need is very much in the hands of those who use it and that data is often more important than the software devices. As of now, there has not been a lot of work done by these companies, and the main obstacle is getting a solid source of data to use and to process so that these devices can get out of our hands. For that reason, there needs to be an industry solution. But there are so many other ways that we are moving forward that the only thing we`ll have right now is a set of things that aren`t really viable. The one small way we can move forward is through the education of our stakeholders and through the development of a number of initiatives that are also being built through education and research. That’s where I think we can get the most impact on social and economic mobility in the country. The primary obstacle in such a situation is funding. It took a while to get there, and it’s still a difficult question. But I am confident that technology can bring a lot to the table, and we`re very much thinking about what steps we need to take to make this happen. The first step is a variety of solutions. This isn`t something that we are talking about simply as a series of simple steps. There have been a number
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[quote=Funny]I’ve been there a lot already, and it feels like I’ve walked right past a handful of people… But you also have to make a decision between them, not at all different but just completely different from how you felt at one time. When I first started out, I didn’t get the chance to go down many paths in life – I had a small group that just sat around waiting
Conformity is continually demonstrated and seen, especially amongst adolescents. For example amongst this audience. I’m not sure that everyone was listening to me speak or even still awake for that matter. However, once I stop talking, someone will start to applaued and the rest of you will follow. If I asked all of you individually what the speech was about could you answer my questions? Most unlikely. Then why will you all start to applaud? Probably not because of the quality of the speech but because it is just the �norm’ to applaud on conclusion.
It is true that this decision to go against social conduct brings about certain difficulties however it also has one obvious advantage. That is people are able are able to see you for the first time. The