CONFORMITY: PRIVATE ACCEPTANCE OR COMPLIENCE
             Human beings are defined as ''social animals'' because in every aspects of life they live together, form a variety of groups and improve relationships with eachother. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in society. In the process of interaction, society and its rules has a social impact on each individual. If people face with any kind of social impact such as group pressure, great part of them show conformity by changing their behaviours, ideas, decisions in expected way. According to X '' A person conforms if he or she chooses a course of action that a majority favors or that is socially acceptable.'' (X,152). Some kind of conformity is natural and socially healty but obeying all the norms, ideas, decisions, etc. without thinking or accepting is harmful for the society and its democratic norms.
             In social life people conform numerous things in different ways because of different reasons. They show conformity to gain social acceptance, to gain a reward, to be as other members of the group whose behaviours are considered as ideal behaviours or not to be rejected or punished by society,group,etc. Conforming in beliefs as well as behaviours is called private acceptance (X,153). In this kind of conformity conformist believes that it is true to conform. For example, if a child does not tell lies because he or she thougt that being honest is morally true this case is called private acceptance. Conforming only in behaviours but not in belief is called complience. For example, if a child does not tell lies because he or she does not want to be punished by his or her family and he or she can be unhonest when there is authority then this is called complience. Complience is a bad kind of conformity because it involves obedience but not acceptance.Altough it is evident that complience causes a conflict in conformist's mind and gives harm to personality, it is not generally
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