As a child I learned early on that, I loved being unique. I wore what I wanted to wear and did what I wanted to do. No matter how deranged I looked I could care less of what people’s opinions were of me. It wasn’t until middle school, I realized it's abnormal to be different . My wardrobe consisted of what I thought was appropriate and comfortable to wear, but my friends wore shirts that went up to their belly button and shorts that stopped at their buttcheeks. I knew that what they wore wasn’t God honoring and overly sexual for a 8th grader, but I wanted to become just another face in the crowd. I conformed to peer pressure, even though I was bigger in height than most girls and had a different body shape I wanted to look like them. I spent fifty dollars on one shopping trip for two articles of clothing just to fit in. Unlike the other girls, I didn't have parents with money overflowing out of their pockets. I spent money that I saved from weeks of making mustard in Chinatown for two shirts that I didn't even feel comfortable wearing and thus began years of self loathing. From 8th grade to midway Sophomore year, I wore revealing clothes that required me to suck …show more content…
In “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Emerson explains how wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are: “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide”. After years of hating myself and thinking that my younger self would hate who I've become, I’m finally comfortable in my own skin. I’m peculiar and awkward, but I’ve found some best friends who are just like me and can let loose and be free. The five of us are flowers in a field of weeds, we’re walking against the crowd, and sunshine on a rainy day. Together we are nonconformist and love being
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American writer in the mid-19th century who wrote a vast amount of essays, including Self-Reliance. “Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide”, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his self-reflective short story, Self-Reliance. This statement is contemplating that being envious is completely ignorant because whoever is envious does not have respect for the items they own. Emerson also exclaims that imitation is suicide. This powerful language does a wonderful job of stating that if one imitates or conforms to something or someone, then they are destroying the uniqueness about themselves. The moment they imitate or conform, they are dead inside because they are losing the uniqueness that allows them to be different from the rest
In 1932, Jenness became the first psychologist to study conformity, which involved an experiment with basic materials and little ethical treatment (Jenness). The participants were asked to examine a jar of beans. They were then told to make an estimate of how many beans were inside of the jar. The participants were not informed of intentions of the study, thus full consent was invalid. When they were exposed to the estimates of other participants before making an individual guess, most participants’ estimations differed from the norm, and a shift occurred from the first estimates to the cluster of numbers within the pool of peer responses. This result led Jenness to form the idea of informational conformity,
The term sheep is often used to describe the mindless compliance to societal norms. Examining the implications of the word sheep reveals the term’s dangerous capabilities of abdicating personal liberties and demanding societal conformity. In the dystopian fiction Brave New World, Aldous Huxley effectively portrays his message about how easily humanity is seduced into compliance through the portrayal of soma, sex, and constant conditioning. Through his narrative voice, Huxley warns readers as he shows the dangers of blindly following governmental authority, greatly paralleling today's world. Throughout the book, Huxley portrays soma as a constant escape depicting his characters continuously taking it at their free will, successfully showing his message how we succumb to pleasure for the sake of escaping negative emotions.
Emerson mentions, “Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none.” Emerson mentions the need to be your own person and not be a follower in society. You need to make decisions based on yourself not off what others will think or to fit in. To be who you are you will be different than most, but that is what will make you great.
Throughout the sixteen years that I have been alive, I have learned many lessons. One of the most important was a saying that my parents always told me, just be yourself. Although this may sound like an easy rule to follow, with the pressure of other people, and the need to fit in with a common crowd, being yourself becomes a way deeper and more difficult task. Many children, teens, and even young adults find it easier to follow along with modern trends and fall under the radar, rather than doing what the love and being noticed or possibly judged for doing so. This is where many people, in my opinion, are wrong. As said by Annie Dillard’s mother, “Torpid conformity was a kind of sin; it was stupidity itself.”
Humans make all sorts of implications, different types directed to variant people. However, in this case three sources go in depth and analysis how conformity can create boundaries or barriers between you and society. Today, the influences of social pressure on rejection or acceptance can drastically modify someones perception or behavior. Moreover, we tend to oblige to norm. With limitations and boundaries authoritatively mandating us to differentiate right from wrong or whether to look left or right, it is almost to easy to blend along side of others. It seems like society's standards control our future actions. It is almost impossible to sustain a pristine thought.
Obedience and Conformity Both obedience and conformity involve social pressure in obedience the pressure comes from behaving as you are instructed to do; whereas in conformity the pressure comes from group norms Behaviour in obedience is determined by social power, whereas in conformity it is influenced mostly by the need for acceptance. In nearly all societies, certain people are given power and authority over others. Our society, for example, parents, teachers, and managers are invested with various degrees of authority. Most of the time, this does not cause any problems.
Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity), as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues).
People who suffer from severe depression feel worthless and carry feelings of guilt. Depression is a major affective disorder that can lead to dire consequences. According to Carlson (2014) people who suffer a major affective disorder such as depression run a risk of committing suicide (pp. 399-400). The symptoms of major depressive order can vary and can come in episodes or be continuous. Some of the symptoms range from uncontrollable crying to loss of appetite and trouble sleeping.
Nonconformity for me means not accomplishing something that you were told to do and refusing to do it. This is important to me because it shows me how people can never accomplish things because they will refuse to do so or might not even respond to obeying the ideas given. Self-reliance means relying on yourself for everything and not having other people to help help you with something you can do on our own or they do not want to know. It is important to me because I have to rely on myself since I was young so I do not worry so much about relying on someone.
Conformity to human constructs is an essential aspect of software. As with anything constructed by and for human use, we wish to understand and use it easily. Software, above all else, is incredibly easy to change. These means that, unlike a physical structure that naturally degrades, software only changes when it is purposefully changed by a human actor. As such, it can be easily changed, either during creation, or maintenance, to reflect human constructs meant to contain and help understand it as a grows in complexity. Software is made to be used by some human or computer actor. These requires it to conform not only to a thing we can understand, but also to something that is known in how it will react to, communicate with, and handle data
Although conformity is the easier choice, you sacrifice your ability to grow as an individual. When you choose to live your life conforming to the social norm you will be forever “...harnessed to a pot of dirt.”. You can only grow so much when all the characteristics that define you are confined to the limitations you are putting on yourself. It is not easy to fight against conformity as once you choose that path, it leeches onto you and forces you to stay. When you submit to conformity you get stuck behind an unbreakable stone that will forever hold you back. The speaker of the poem tells us not to be daunted when you are faced with the obstacle of conformity and you must break, “through the surface of stone.”. Once you do this you will be
Conformity- is the most common adaptation and is the antithesis of deviance means one accepting the goal of society (acquisition of wealth) and knowing that approved means (working hard) creates wealth and success.
	I think that Emerson believes that every person should be as much as individual as they can. Be who you are on the inside, don't try to be like everyone else. Don't worry about fitting in, if someone is a real friend, they will like you for who you are, real friends won't dump you for being yourself.
Scientific studies have consistently shown that people are influenced in their decision-making processes according to social psychology. For example, a psychologist named Stanley Milgram conducted a study to test the affects of obedience to authority. He selected a group of male volunteers and told them that they were randomly selected to be “teachers” and “learners,” though every volunteer in the study was given the role of the teacher. The volunteers were instructed to teach the learners a series of words under supervision of an experimenter and give them a “shock” whenever they failed. The shocks were gradually increased until the learners began to exhibit signs of fear and pain – this is when the experimenter would tell the volunteers to continue with the experiment despite the obvious discomfort that both the teacher and learner were experiencing. 65% of the volunteers continued with the experiment until a fatal “shock” was given due to the social influence of the experimenter! This study proved that an individual's obedience to authority can directly bypass their morals and consequently affect their behavior.