Types of Conformity

• What are the 3 types of Conformity?

  • Compliance
  • Identification
  • Internalisation
• What is Compliance? 


  When you just go along with what others are doing. It’s simply to fit in with a group and once away from the group, opinions and behaviours will be back to ‘normal’.
• Example of Compliance: 


  Laughing at a joke you didn’t find funny.
• Is Compliance temporary or permanent?

  Temporary.
• Is Compliance public or private?

  Public.
• What is Identification? 


  A person conforms to the behaviours of a group because there is something they value about the group.
• Example of Identification:


  Football team.
• Is Identification public or private?

  Public - we identify with a group and change our behaviours publicly to be part of the group. Can be private as there is a change in beliefs too.
• Is Identification temporary or permanent? 


  Typically temporary whilst in presence of the group.
• What is Internalisation? 


  When a person genuinely believes and accepts the group norm. Behaviour and beliefs are present even when not with the group.
• Example of Internalisation:

  Political views.
• Is Internalisation private or public?

  Both - only one that is.
• Is Internalisation temporary or permanent?

  Permanent.