Investigation the Conformity Based on Age Difference without Gap of Age Difference

It is definitely stated that younger people (17-24 years) conform more in the school/work than older people (25 years). People in 17 - 24 tend to avoid agreeing in others ideas because they know that it is bad ideas. There reason that might explain this situation is that people in 17-24 years old want to get more attention in their friends, teachers, or even family. One way to get the attention is to be different because people can recognize the independent easily. For example, if in the group they come with a different idea from the majority of the group, all of the attention will switch to the independent. The majority want to know what idea that the independents offer. The more they can get attention to others, the happier they are. In addition, It can be seen also from the result of the survey that people in 17-24 tend to be more unique and different to others compare to older people.

Another reason is that 17-24 years old is the era of people that want to know everything they want. Become a conformist means people 17-24 years will follow the majority, whereas they are likely want to try different way so that they can take the experience from what they have done. The high curiosity is one of the reasons they want to be different as well.

In fact the conformity is not only happened in the school or work situation but also happened in the society. Conformity can be seen when people obey tend to obey to the norms in society since conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs and behaviour to group norms (Cialdini and Goldstein, 2004). However, the result of the survey states the similar conclusion. It is clearly stated in the result of the survey that people in 17-24 years more rarely to conform to the norms in the society, so people over 25 years in this case indicate that more act conformity. It is appeared because people in the group 17-24 is likely to do first then think after or they just do whatever they want without thinking if they have breaking regulations. As a result they often break the rule or norms. On the other hand people over 25 years know about the norms and because of the level of maturity they can think wisely. Furthermore, they know what consequences when they disobey the norms, so they will think twice to break the rule or norms.