Confirmity types

Internalisation

• Accepting the majority views as your own, the views are now your own too as you have accepted and internalised them.

• Could happen in an unfamiliar situation where you don’t know what the ‘correct’ way to behave is.

Compliance

• Going along with things even if you don’t agree with them, even if you don’t agree with the views you go along with the majority.

• You do this to appear ‘normal’ and avoid exclusion or rejection from a group.

Identification

• Confirming to what is expected of you in social roles. This means changing behaviours because you want to fit certain roles in society.

• Could also be trying to imitate the behaviour of a role model.

Types of conformity

• Internalisation

• Compliance

• Identification