Author: Edward L. Walker

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781332215386

Excerpt from Anatomy for Conformity Conformity is a current social problem. This book is an effort to show how analysis of the problem can lead to experimental research, and how the conclusions obtained can yield general principles applicable to everyday problems. This volume grew out of what has been called the Conformity Project. The Conformity Project began in informal discussions among a number of its eventual participants. It grew into a formal proposal and became one of several projects supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the University of Michigan for encouragement of new work in the social sciences. Formal work started with an interdisciplinary seminar which had as its basic aim the development and testing of a theory to account for the behavior of individuals in groups in general, and conformity behavior in particular. An experimental phase began to develop toward the end of the first year, and by the beginning of the third year the project was almost entirely experimental in character. The original goal of the project was to achieve a synthesis of some of the social science approaches to common problems. The psychologist, the sociologist, and the anthropologist often deal independently with the same problem, and they do so in quite different terms. By choosing the problem of conformity and by working on this problem as a team it was hoped that a new approach to important social problems might emerge. This hope remained largely unfulfilled. What emerged was a simple basic formula which could be elaborated almost endlessly, and into which were fit a relatively small number of concepts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.