No one wants to be so unlike everyone else. No one wants to not be liked or viewed differently. Everyone simply wants to fit in. In the American Scholar, Margaret Drabble expresses this thought in the quote,” Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.” We are constantly affected by external factors that create a view of how we should be living, and, as a result change our internal opinions and mindset. This explains our society today because people are conforming to society from external factors, like our appearance, and by internal factors, like with our opinions.
So, to remain safe, they changed their original answers to match more closely to everyone else’s. They basically accepted everyone else’s opinion about the reality that they had experienced themselves over their own original answer. Explaining Asch’s Results • Why did Asch’s real participants deny the evidence of their eyes and report the obviously incorrect answer chosen by the other group members? Here again, the participants did not want to appear different or “wrong” compared to the others in the group. They denied what
I need to work in a person centred way and take into account the service users likes and dislikes, beliefs and any personal history they have , I can deliver the best care possible to them. At the same time I need to offer assistance they may require within my role of a support worker. Diversity should be valued as no individual is the same as any other. People don’t always accept what is different and diversity can lead a society to grow or to lead to violence and hatred. Sometimes it can be that people are a little afraid of an individual who is different, I have found in my work role that some people can be very hesitant to talk to the people I support.
Outline and evaluate the theories/studies into conformity. Normative social influence is when people conform because of a desire to be liked. This type of conformity is often linked with compliance as we publically go along with the majority but privately hold our own views. Informational social influence on the other hand is when people conform as a desire to be right. However, unlike normative social influence, informational social influence often leads to a long lasting change in beliefs and attitudes.
The people that surround us have a greater effect on our self-perception than we think. By understanding our personality we can learn to accept who we are. Being happy with yourself helps you live a healthier lifestyle. In Among Friends, Jennie went through many things because she never showed her true self. Once she did people learned to accept her because they could see the difference.
I would have liked to have more information from the Amish perspective than the outside world’s view, but there was significant conclusions drawn from what was available. It seems the program has a good start in the community and will be beneficial for other Amish communities to get started. I was intrigued by the multicultural aspects of the article and where it has went in the media. There has been more information available for the public in regards to the Amish way of life. They have always valued their privacy, which made it interesting to see that they have allowed some of their cultural aspects to be shed to the public.
Many in society would view being consistent as a very good trait and something that everyone should do. When someone is always changing their mind it is usually looked down upon in society. People who are firm in their beliefs and don’t change their mind are looked as great people and are great for sticking what they believe in. If a public figure had a strong viewpoint on something, but changed their viewpoint they would receive great criticism and lose lots of fans. Emerson’s view on consistency is, once again, completely different form the average view from society.
Some individuals feel that group therapy may be too threatening because you are letting other individuals know your business and you may feel uncomfortable about that. Another con is group therapy specifically for anxiety disorders and that may not be provided in the area that you life in (Schneier & Welkowitz, 1996). Individual therapy provides individuals greater availability, one-on-one attention and a greater focus on your specific issues. Individual therapy has been a treatment of choice for the one who are suffering (Schneier & Welkowitz,
We have so much that we can teach one another if we do not let ignorance stand in our way. There is no reason why we can’t start teaching live instead of hatred and we can live amongst each other in harmony. A diverse group, as we have here in American gives us a taste of every thing from food and clothing to life in itself and we do not have to venture to these different destinations to learn about it because we have it here. To me, that is the beauty of being diverse. Learning to accept the opinions of others as well as well as accepting the differences we have will help to foster the climate of acceptance.
I believe the media is encouraging people to tolerant diversity and to accept it in to their everyday life. The media try’s to encourage diversity to help people see and find the common ground for different groups. They try to show everyone has something interesting in their back ground and we are all the same. The only way people will be able to overcome and reduce prejudice and increase appreciation for diversity is to acknowledge the misinformed information and openly discuss it, then deal with it. Only then will we be able to step over this challenge and stop people from judging each