Obedience and Conformity

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In our world today people listen to authority, whether it is their teacher, parents, coaches, etc. They show and express and level of respect and obedience. In modern America today everywhere you go you see conformity. For example schools that require their students to wear uniforms, jobs with uniforms, and even high school, college, or professional sports teams. Both obedience and conformity cause people to act in different ways. In some cases these can produce positive results in others people will rebel and the ideas of obedience and conformity can prove very dangerous. In schools and classrooms you see students who challenge authority and go against obedience. They have an instinct to rebel, you place rules in front of them and they run right through the teachers guidelines and rules. On teams and in school or jobs you have people rebel because they don’t like being conformed. They don’t like being equal to each other. Everything in life is some sort of competition, so instinctively they try to better themselves then one another. People battle for everything, whoever has more respect for others, who has more friends, more popular, if they gain more by rebelling more people will rebel. Society and our world has changed in the last century. They way teenagers and kids act in present day would have been unheard of forty to fifty years ago. Times are changing I think conformity and obedience are being challenged more because of our nations and its peoples mindset toward themselves and
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