compliance

Examples of compliance in the following topics:

• Conformity and Obedience

  • Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three major types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization.
  • Compliance is public conformity, while possibly keeping one's own original beliefs independent.
  • This can be motivated by the attractiveness of the source, and this is a deeper type of conformism than compliance.
  • Obedience differs from compliance, which is behavior influenced by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the majority.
  • Differentiate among compliance, identification, and internalization; and between obedience and conformity

• Control Theory

  • Moreover, control theory is met with some resistance for its compliance to a conservative view of the broader social order.

• Formal Means of Control

  • This gives the control mechanisms a measure of support from the population and voluntary compliance.

• Ethics

  • Several studies that, when brought to light, led to the introduction of ethical principles guiding human subjects research and Institutional Review Boards to ensure compliance with those principles, are worth noting, including the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which 399 impoverished black men with syphilis were left untreated to track the progress of the disease and Nazi experimentation on humans.

• Social Control

  • Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group.

• Isolation and Development

  • Social contacts influence individuals' behavior by encouraging health-promoting behaviors, such as adequate sleep, diet, exercise, and compliance with medical regimens or by discouraging health-damaging behaviors, such as smoking, excessive eating, alcohol consumption, or drug abuse.

• Informal Social Control

  • Social control refers to societal and political mechanisms that regulate individual and group behaviour in an attempt to gain conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group.

• Theoretical Understandings of Socialization

  • In all of the approaches outlined above, socialization has, in one way or another, referred to the idea that society shapes its members toward compliance and cooperation with societal requirements.

• Power, Authority, and Violence

  • Refusal to follow the dictates of the government can result in the government using violence to coerce individuals into compliance.

• Cultural Transmission

  • Cultural differences have been found in academic motivation, achievement, learning style, conformity, and compliance.