Why do people sometimes feel that they need to conform.
- Why do people sometimes feel that they need to socially conform to what is going on around them, even if they do not want to do so?
- How do the social institutions of our country (e.g., schools, the healthcare system, the economy, religious organizations) play a role in encouraging social conformity, as well as social deviance?
- In reviewing the following video “Solomon Asch’s Conformity Experiment Today” at http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/so…, describe why the individuals in the Asch experiment usually gave the same answer when they probably knew that it was wrong.