Noam Shpancer's Article, 'You Are A Conformist'

Conformity is the intention to align attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with other people. Noam Shpancer, a psychology professor at Otterbein College, talked about conformity. In Shpancer’s article, "You are a Conformist. That is, you are Human", he explained that conformity is how humans react like a herd. Any coordinated species reacts to certain event that would endanger or move them to follow what the species had to do. Shpancer's theory about conformity was briefed by having two students to wait outside and telling the rest of the class to avoid contact or interactions with the two students. The professor explained that people aren't aware that they are conforming because they just don't know it. He described two social cues: informational

As history goes back to the time when civilization was formed, people align themselves to some sort of ideology that is related to politics, religion, and radical. The ideology is embraced by the people and spreads out to other group of people that that shares the same ideology. Various ideologies throughout history have constantly changed over time as people strive for a new idea to take in their fit. Shpancer said that people react like herd animals, people accept ideology that is naturally accepted by most groups. Conformity created ideology, which explains why there are so many types of ideology throughout history. The fundamental part about conformity and ideology are presented within sociology. Ideology has made people believe in something that would be accepted by all, yet, not all of the people accepted the same ideology. There are multiple ideologies that people follow and that can form groups which leads to a formation of a belief. For example, if two people are embracing a same ideology, but in a different form, then the conformity between these two individuals would be normative. This idea from Shpnacer’s conformity has made some evidence that people conform on their beliefs in ideology, so whatever kind of ideology people believed in, the results are the