Essay on the Social Norms in the Walking Dead

The act of people conforming is seen every where. Any activity performed by someone that is “in the ordinary” is them conforming to the norm. In the crucible, all the girls conform to the norm, set by Abigail Williams. When Abigail faints, the girls faint, when Abigail screams, the girls scream. They mirror her in her every action due to their fear of what would occur if they did not. Same concept is seen today, for example, when you shower regularly you are conforming to the norm. You shower in fear of judgement if you were not to shower, and you shower in following the actions of others. This common action of following in others footsteps affects us by causing people to become identical and influencing people to ignore their personal morals and follow the mob of society blindly. People force physical change upon themselves due to fear of being that one

Conformity is a concept that has been heavily researched in the field of social psychology. Conformity is defined as a change in behavior, beliefs, and attitudes due to group pressure perceived as real (encompassing the presence of others) or imagined (encompassing the pressure of social standards) (Myers, 2010, p. 192). The concept of conformity is a powerful influence on the tendency for people to arrange their thoughts, perspectives, and ideas with others, especially when in a group. This takes away from a person’s individuality because they want to feel accepted by others and therefore, a person will accomplish this basic need of approval through conforming.

Like The Crucible, conformity is also highly present in everyday society. At a very basic level, this is seen in how people conform to “unwritten rules” of society, such as bathing regularly, and saying “hello” when greeting people. Although there are no requirements or strict punishments for not performing these actions, humans’ concern for what their peers think of them drives them to do them so they do not stick out of the norm. This is seen similarly in how people dress, like wearing suits for office jobs and how kids dress for school based on dress codes. People wear what they consider normal, or what is mandated, in order to conform to the people around them, allowing them to not stick out and to be accepted by people around them. This idea was also demonstrated in an experiment conducted by the producers of the television show “Brain Games,” where they planted some people in a doctor's office waiting room, and told them to stand up when a bell rang, and sit down when the bell rang again. They found that actual patients stood up and down with the planted extras, despite not knowing why they were doing it, essentially conforming to the group in order to avoid being the outcast. Clearly, conformity is very present in society today.

In fact, this also applies to the situation of understanding what social conformity is. This subject has been around for centuries, forcing many to behave in a certain way that the society expects. The influence of peer pressure is still a topic has an impact to the world, especially the adolescents. The “[s]ocial psychologists have suggested that one core function of compliance and conformity is to maintain group harmony”(“Social Influence and the Brain:Persuasion, Susceptibility to Influence and Retransmission” Cascio,Scholz,Falk) and this applies to many individuals who value public opinions more than their own. They seek to be “good” people and make an effort to follow the trend of the crowd. More often than not, this also relates to the confidence level of an individual, “If those others agree with one’s beliefs, one gains confidence in them; if they disagree, one loses confidence” (“Conformity,” Levine). This is indeed what many people face today from all different phases of life. Daisy, one of the characters in the book The Great Gatsby, is a perfect example of a person soaked into social conformity. From the beginning of her marriage life with Tom to the end of the book, she progresses into immoral stages of life. Day after day she conforms herself into a world filled with corruptions, such as adultery and murder. Although, she is an adult, she is a character that is stuck in a stage that her age group have already

Conformity or in this case compliance with standards of others and being afraid of being an individual plays a major role with bystanders especially in groups of people. For example, a smoke filled room experiment was tested once with a young man by himself and then again with the same person but in a group. The first time this young man saw the smoke he immediately went looking for help shouting and jumping to get the receptionist’s attention, but the second time when more people were added to the room or “experiment” they all acknowledged the smoke but did nothing. The first time the young man wanted to get help but when a group was added he conformed to that group and did nothing. The same thing happens in real situations like the famous 1964 Kitty Genovese murder and even the 2010 heroic homeless man murder both were witnessed by many, yet no one did

We were making our way to the doors slowly. While killing every walker in sight and range, we fought our way through the horrendous herd of walkers. Guts, flesh, and meat went flying out to every direction with every swing of the baseball bats that we had. I fancied a long pipe with scissor blades taped at the end of the pipe. The others decided to go old fashioned and just use a good old, trusty baseball bat. I’ve been dreaming of this day ever since I’ve started watching The Walking Dead. We’ve been killing walkers non stop. I was lucky enough to have found Thomas walking around the halls. Finally, the doors were barricaded, and the final battle of the second trial came close. I had to finish this. Deus and Onaga, the two deities gave me hints on where to go. I followed their wishes and went to the chorus room. Again, more danger was there. This was Olivia’s class… Why is it that everytime I go do a trial for these deities, I always end up in Olivia’s room. Chapter 9 : FROM START TO FINISH

I chose to write about “The Walking Dead Opens Its Season in Lively Fashion”, by Mark Dawidziak because, I personally love this show which is the purpose of my choice! “The Walking Dead” is a TV series that is currently beginning its 8th Season this October. This show is based on an apocalypse that takes place following some government experimenting. Their experiments go terribly wrong and zombies are the end result. The author of “The Walking Dead Opens Its Season in Lively Fashion” really pulls in the heart of the story by being so passionate with his own descriptions of the series.

Conformity is a form of social influence, when we conform we act and think like members of our group. Often people even alter or change their personal beliefs to match those around them. When we conform we feel pressured to fit in with others, to be a part of the majority. While we may still have contradicting beliefs towards things, we change our behaviors and actions to match what everybody else is

Through narrating of Obama’s two speeches, Olivia found that the “deep structure” of Obama’s speeches is the post-zombie apocalypse narrative structure an underlying that is the psychology of the survivalist. “The psychology that emerges form each seasonal arch of the Walking Dead and in Obama’s apologia is survival relies on the solidarity of the community or democratic individualism” (Olivia, 2016). Olivia mentioned that this survivalist psychology is a persuasion tactic to exonerate Obama’s administration from blame for questionable foreign policies and it promotes the acceptance of moral ambiguity in order to rationalize the necessity of individual sacrifice in the name of preserving a

One American belief that has been consistent throughout the history of the country is perseverance. In John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s speech “The Inaugural Address” and Frank Darabont’s series “The Walking Dead”, the idea of perseverance is well represented. Kennedy wanted to show people how it may take time to fix our country, but we must keep pushing through the hard times, there is a light at the end of the tunnel we just need to keep walking. Darabont’s show, meanwhile, depicts a very diverse group of people surviving a zombie apocalypse. Although Kennedy and Darabont express their thoughts on perseverance through different ways, but it is ultimately the same.

To understand why we have a sense of conformity, we must first understand value. “Values are used to learn people’s culture, ideas, and what they want out of life (Henslin 49). Every culture has similar and different values. “Norms are the expectations a group develops concerning the ‘right’ way to reflects its values” (Henslin49). An example of a norm would be personal space and speaking quietly in certain places such as a library. When norms are violated people often begin to question the person’s sanity and well-being based on how extreme the norm violation was.

Poncelet’s life and how he acts. It portrays him as a bottom of the line,

Both main characters in The Walking Dead are African-American trying to survive the apocalypse and most of the characters that die in the game are white. While in The Last of Us, it's more of the opposite where the main characters are white and all of the African-American characters die throughout the game. In The Walking Dead, the violence of the main characters doesn’t show what most people would expect of a black character to be doing. The Walking Dead shows that an African-American characters named Lee, who’s background and story can be recognized in the game by the players and can recognize him as human, not some other character we don't care for. However, some of these black characters can be misrecognized of their hardship as human being like in the The Last of Us, with many of the black character's background barely get recognized and cared for. The Walking dead also wants us, the player, to empathize with the characters struggles.There are players that can identify and be a spectator of someone with their characteristics like Lee. Lee’s personality as a caring and loving person for Clementine shows his humanity. Near the end of the game you can see Lee’s suffering from being in handcuffs in the beginning to being in it the end which present the motion between player and

"Disoriented", the one word Rick Grimes uses to describe the moments he has been through before reuniting with his family. In a world driven into a apocalypse, filled with the undead and anarchy, everyone's will and faith are tested. One will either be changed for worst or for the better. This essay will analyze the actions of Rick Grimes, present my ideas if I were in Ricks position, and to answer for the actions of one more character.

Daryl is a human being who makes decisions, suffers loss, remembers a bad past, and tries to stick up for the people he loves. The characters do more than fight to survive; they fight to live their real lives it has just as much zombie action, but probably even more humanity, because it is a story-based game driven by your choices. Who lives and who dies and how is often up to your choices. Many people in order to survive perform acts so terrible they lose their humanity and in that sense die emotionally. For Kirkham, the zombies and the apocalypse are a stick with which to push and test people, to find out about the best and more likely the worst of who we are, to reflect on society