types of conformity

• What are the 3 types of conformity?

  compliance, identification and internalisation
• What is internalisation?

  a person genuinely accepts group norms and opinions in public as well as in private and this change is normally permanent
• What is identification?

  when people conform because they value the opinion of members in the group, even if they privately disagree
• conformity is when people change their behaviour to fit in with the majority, as a result of pressure from a person or group
• compliance is when a person goes along with group norms in order to fit in even if they don't actually agree with their viewpoint. they tend to disagree with these views in private
• one limitation of the types of conformity is that there is difficulties in distinguishing between compliance and internalisation - it is hard to measure public compliance and private acceptance of individuals - so determining a type of conformity may be partially subjective